[PATCH 05/14] Cygwin: FIFO: fix the error checking in raw_read

Ken Brown kbrown@cornell.edu
Sun Apr 14 19:16:00 GMT 2019


If the pipe is empty, we can get either ERROR_NO_DATA or
ERROR_PIPE_LISTENING.
---
 winsup/cygwin/fhandler_fifo.cc | 13 +++++--------
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/winsup/cygwin/fhandler_fifo.cc b/winsup/cygwin/fhandler_fifo.cc
index 764420ffd..2da579b95 100644
--- a/winsup/cygwin/fhandler_fifo.cc
+++ b/winsup/cygwin/fhandler_fifo.cc
@@ -749,19 +749,16 @@ fhandler_fifo::raw_read (void *in_ptr, size_t& len)
 		fifo_client_unlock ();
 		return;
 	      }
-	    /* In the duplex case with no data, we seem to get nread
-	       == -1 with ERROR_PIPE_LISTENING on the first attempt to
-	       read from the duplex pipe (fc_handler[0]), and nread == 0
-	       on subsequent attempts. */
+	    /* If the pipe is empty, we usually get nread == -1 with
+	       ERROR_NO_DATA or ERROR_PIPE_LISTENING.  An exception is
+	       that in the duplex case we may get nread == 0 when we
+	       attempt to read from the duplex pipe (fc_handler[0]). */
 	    else if (nread < 0)
 	      switch (GetLastError ())
 		{
 		case ERROR_NO_DATA:
-		  break;
 		case ERROR_PIPE_LISTENING:
-		  if (_duplexer && i == 0)
-		    break;
-		  /* Fall through. */
+		  break;
 		default:
 		  fifo_client_unlock ();
 		  goto errout;
-- 
2.17.0



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