dlopen() on a fifo

Kirk Russell <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.devel.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hello,

I am using NetBSD 3.0.  I found that dlopen() will block if the given
path is a fifo:

	$ mkfifo -m a+wrx afifo
	$ ksh -c "LD_PRELOAD=./afifo /usr/bin/true"
	[... blocked ...]

Is this expected behaviour?  Just curious :-)

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Kirk Russell            <[email protected]>            http://www.ba23.org/
Bridlewood Software Testers Guild                  Ottawa Ontario Canada
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