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Re: read() may fail due to nonblocking stdin
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Chet Ramey |
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Re: read() may fail due to nonblocking stdin |
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Mon, 23 Jan 2017 14:01:38 -0500 |
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On 1/23/17 10:45 AM, Chet Ramey wrote:
> On 1/23/17 10:42 AM, Chet Ramey wrote:
>> On 1/22/17 2:32 PM, Siteshwar Vashisht wrote:
>>> If a child process sets stdin to non-blocking and does not set it back to
>>> blocking before exiting, other processes may fail to read from stdin.
>>
>> It's not the shell's business to be resetting this for processes it spawns.
>> What bash should do is to turn of O_NONBLOCK when it reads input, which it
>> already does at startup but not every time it calls readline().
>
> And maybe I should make the follow-up point explicit: that will fix this
> problem, too.
Something like this, for instance.
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Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU chet@case.edu http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/
readline-unset-ndelay.patch
Description: Source code patch