Re: dlopen() on a fifo
[email protected] (Matthias Scheler)
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In article <[email protected]>, Kirk Russell <[email protected]> writes: > 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? Yes. Processes get blocked if they try to read from a FIFO and there is no writer. Kind regards -- Matthias Scheler http://scheler.de/~matthias/