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From: Matthias Meyer <matthias DOT meyer AT gmx DOT li>
Subject:  read -t hangs sometimes with pipes
Date:  Sat, 20 Jun 2009 21:14:08 +0200
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Hi,

Sometimes pipes, created with mknod, seems not to be work fully correct.

Most of the time I can do:
mknod /var/run/CONT p
read -t 2 signal < /var/run/CONT.

After 2 seconds I receive a timeout and the read returns.
But sometimes the read will wait forever. And also if I write something
to /var/run/CONT, the read did not read it.

Furthermore I can not "reset" anything. I have to reboot the workstation
thats pipes works again.

Is there any posibility to reset something that pipes will work again
without reboot?

Thanks
Matthias
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