Re: Malfunctioning select() call on a FIFO

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Re^2: Malfunctioning select() call on a FIFO by Anonymous Monk on Jun 23, 2010 at 17:00 UTC
Instead of : sysopen (FIFO, $icbmfifo, O_RDONLY\|O_NONBLOCK); We use: `sysopen (nullFile, $icbmfifo, O_RDONLY\|O_NONBLOCK);<br/> sysopen (writeFile, $icbmfifo, O_WRONLY\|O_NONBLOCK);<br/> sysopen (FIFO, $icbmfifo, O_RDONLY);<br/> close(nullFile);` [download] This makes the program wait for data on the FIFO.	[reply] [d/l]