cat and nonblocking
James Simmons
jsimmons at infradead.org
Mon Mar 31 14:40:03 UTC 2008
> # { echo TEST; sleep 1; } | { ./nonblocking; cat; ./blocking; } >result
> cat: read error: Resource temporarily unavailable
>
> and file "result" contains "TEST", as expected. -- vda
For my case I have ` cat /var/log/test | more ` where the test log is a
ring buffer. Without the patch cat will read the file but then just sit
there once it reaches the end. With the non blocking patch it exits.
Any work arounds for this?
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