[parisc-linux] Re: pipes

[Richard Hirst]

On Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 10:39:57PM +1100, Alan Modra wrote:
> On Thu, 22 Feb 2001, Alan Cox wrote:
> 
> > > > 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):
> > 
> > The return is ok. Its 'deep magic' strace sees
> 
> Err, are you saying I'm barking up the wrong gum tree, and there's nothing
> wrong with the read() in my strace output?

I think the problem is simply that there is no data for the read to
pick up, so it hangs until the alarm goes off.

Richard