linux-kernel - Re: Hang opening a pipe written to by a child, with SIGCHLD

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Date:	Wed, 11 Apr 2012 01:12:54 +0200
From:	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Lluís Batlle i Rossell <viric@...ic.name>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Hang opening a pipe written to by a child, with SIGCHLD

On 04/11, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
>
> Or may be you can "fix" this script, just add "exec < $PIPE"
> before the main "while true" loop.

Cough, no ;) this can equally race with the exiting child.

Oleg.

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