Re: Improving read/write/close system call reliability when usedwith pthreads

[Alan Cox]

> For (1), a simple scenario has two threads: a reader and a watchdog.  
> The reader thread is stuck in a blocking read of an unreliable pipe.  
> The watchdog thread is designed to cancel the blocking read using  
> close on the reader's fd.

The reader still has the fd open so the fd is not yet closed. This seems
completely sane to me. Closing the *writer* fd would create an EOF which
is the proper response.

Alan
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