Re: Strange behaviour on 'read' from a pipe

[Lluís Batlle i Rossell]

On Sun, Apr 01, 2012 at 11:06:22AM -0400, Chet Ramey wrote:
> On 4/1/12 5:53 AM, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> 
> >> It looks like a simple race condition.  I suspect that the scheduler
> >> arranges things so that the child process ends up exiting between the
> >> open and the read, but I don't have any real evidence to back it up.
> > 
> > Note that the opening of the pipe as part of the redirection in the
> > parent blocks until there is a writer, ie. until the child opens the
> > pipe.  Can this open call return EINTR?
> 
> open() is supposed to return EINTR only if interrupted by a signal.  The
> only signal I can see occurring is SIGCHLD, and bash installs the SIGCHLD
> handler with SA_RESTART.

Then, any idea of what can be happening?