I think not being able to suspend a "cat > test.fifo" demonstrates I
did miss something major -- I expected so.
However, this does present a dilemma. The POSIX test program expects the
child to remain as a reader of the fifo, even though it has been stopped.
To me, this means that the system call must be restarted. On the other
hand, if I hit ^Z, you want the system call to be suspended.
One possibility is that POSIX specifies that system calls are restarted
if the process is killed with SIGSTOP, but not SIGTSTP. If so, then you
could add a "signr!=SIGSTOP" clause to the previous test I proposed.
This allows the test to pass, and the process to be suspended using
^Z/SIGTSTP. However, my change doesn't feel right, because it appears
that the stopped process isn't actually stopped.
I think the specified behaviour that the test program is trying to test
needs to be explained, so we can work out exactly in which way the test
is failing (on the machines other than Linus'!). One aspect of the
test that may be relevant is that the POSIX suite calls setpgid(0,0) --
is that significant?
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