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Re: More on pipes and O_NONBLOCK
On Fri, Aug 02, 2002 at 03:17:23PM +0200, Kandziora Jan wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>It's been a while since I tried to use a cygwin pipe with nonblocking
>operation.
>I tried it with
>
> if (fcntl(0,F_SETFL,O_NONBLOCK)<0)
> {
> perror("input stream can not be set to nonblocking mode");
> exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
> }
> if (fcntl(1,F_SETFL,O_NONBLOCK)<0)
> {
> perror("output stream can not be set to nonblocking mode");
> exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
> }
>
>It worked for reading from a piped stdin, but not for writing, although the
>code
>snipped above reported no error. Instead, the write on a piped stdout
>blocked after
>writing 12288 Bytes.
>
>Now I read in a Win32 API Book that WIN32 APIs WriteFile() to any pipe is
>always blocking. - Huh? -
>
>If that's true, and Cygwin uses WIN32 API for Pipes, the second fcntl() has
>to fail if the
>descriptor belongs to a pipe, hasn't it? At least that behaviour should be
>noted somewhere,
>maybe in the "Implementation Details" section in the Cygwin API
>Documentation.
>
>What do you think?
I think that a patch would be gratefully accepted.
cgf
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