Re: [CentOS] Bash Question

On 04/08/2010 10:57 AM, Joseph L. Casale wrote:

Hey guys, messing around with a snippet from a mailing list post,

#!/bin/bash

mkfifo -m 666 /var/spool/my_fifo exec 42<> /var/spool/my_fifo

while true do while read -t 5 data<&42 do echo "data is ($data)" done echo "read again" done

What happens to this to invalidate the initial 'true' condition, it only runs for a short while?

Works fine for me. Define "short while" (to a geologist, that could be a few millenia). What is the exit code when your script does terminate?