[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?

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