[MPlayer-dev-eng] Re: kernel: to do_select(pipe) or not to do

[D Richard Felker III]

On Tue, Nov 23, 2004 at 01:37:29PM +0200, Jan Knutar wrote:
> On Tuesday 23 November 2004 11:30, Alexander Strasser wrote:
> 
> >  - it _never_ worked as expected... (shame on us we didn't see)
> >  - it seems/is plain stupid to have a blocking pipe as input buffer
> >    even if we try to use it in a non-blocking manner ( and this wasn't done right )
> 
> So the pipe basically serves as a FIFO and nothing else? It's never used
> for interprocess communication or similar?

huh? what are you talking about? even if it were, a pipe is ONE-WAY!
if you're trying to make communication between two processes in both
directions over the same pipe, it's NOT going to work!!

rich