Re: How to know write end of FIFO has closed

From: Ian Stirling (root_at_mauve.demon.co.uk)
Date: 01/20/05

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    Date: 20 Jan 2005 16:16:49 GMT

    sandeep_onsite@yahoo.com wrote:
    > Hi,
    >
    > How to check write end of a FIFO has been closed?
    > My problem:
    >
    > My Linux syslog daemon(syslogd) is sending the syslog messages to a
    > FIFO. my application daemon program keeps reading from FIFO using
    > blocking read() call.
    > When syslogd terminates, read() call always returns 0 bytes, indicating
    > EOF. But how do I confirm 0 bytes read was due to syslogd closing the
    > write end of the FIFO. Is there any way to check that write end is
    > closed.

    man errno

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