[CentOS] Pipes (fifos) not working in concurrently
Bart Schaefer
barton.schaefer at gmail.comSat Nov 26 05:41:31 UTC 2011
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On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 6:34 PM, Bart Schaefer <barton.schaefer at gmail.com> wrote: > > Next you create wget #2, which (because it was forked from the parent > shell) shares all the file descriptors that the shell had open to wget > #1, e.g., including the input to the fifo. Repeat for all the rest of > the wget. By the time you have created the last one, each of them has > a set of descriptors shared with every other that was created ahead of > them. > > Thus, even though you write to the fifo for wget #2 and close it from > the parent shell, it doesn't actually see EOF and begin processing the > input until the corresponding descriptor shared by wget #1 is closed > when wget #1 exits. I wrote that backwards. Actually I think the *last* one (#20) exits first, and then #19, and so on down to #1 ... but the descriptor management issue is the same.
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