Jonathan Nieder wrote: > First check that fread can handle a 0-length read from an empty fifo. > The writing end of the fifo is opened in advance in a subshell since > even 0-length reads are allowed to block when the writing end of a > pipe is not open. Erm, what I mean here is that open(O_RDONLY) will block until the writing end has been opened. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html