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Date:      Wed, 3 Jun 2009 15:35:54 +0300
From:      Vlad Galu <dudu@dudu.ro>
To:        Kostik Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: poll()-ing a pipe descriptor, watching for POLLHUP
Message-ID:  <ad79ad6b0906030535o4b1a959ev6bc2b34af4e7304e@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20090603123208.GK1927@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua>
References:  <ad79ad6b0906030515k2e41f4b9t25f752af8ef3866c@mail.gmail.com>  <20090603123208.GK1927@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua>

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On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 3:32 PM, Kostik Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 03:15:32PM +0300, Vlad Galu wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> Please take a look at the attached code. Shouldn't poll() get a
>> POLLHUP event when the child process exits, closing the write end of
>> the pipe?
>
> It seems that you code forgot to close the write end of the pipe in
> parent. Thus, pipe is referenced by another file descriptor from
> the parent process, and you do not get close event.
>

Aaarhg! You're right! Sorry for the noise!



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