[parisc-linux] Re: pipes

[Richard Hirst]

On Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 11:00:54AM +0000, Richard Hirst wrote:
> 10:50:05 alarm(1)                       = 0
> 10:50:05 read(0, "my buffer\n", 10)     = -512
> 10:50:06 --- SIGALRM (Alarm clock) ---
> 10:50:06 +++ killed by SIGALRM +++
> 
> 
> Looks like the primary problem is that your read is blocking for 10 seconds
> thinking there is no data available.  Secondary problem is that the kernel
> returns the wrong thing when the syscall is interrupted.

But I just tried this on my x86 as well (2.2 kernel):

alarm(1)                                = 0
read(0, 0xbffff740, 0xa)                = -1 (errno 512)
--- SIGALRM (Alarm clock) ---
+++ killed by SIGALRM +++

Richard