[patch] fbsplash

[Paul Fox]

denys wrote:
 > On Friday 04 April 2008 11:27, Michele Sanges wrote:
 > > Il giorno ven, 28/03/2008 alle 09.06 -0400, Paul Fox ha scritto:
 > > > is the proper solution simply to open it twice, once for reading,
 > > > and once for writing?  this guarantees a writer (which will never
 > > > write anything).
 > > 
 > > Following the suggestion of Paul, now I open the fifo twice to use the
 > > opportunity to make the read blocking.
 > 
 > This seems to be a good idea. I am committing the attached patch
 > to svn. Saves ~70 bytes.

btw, i've done this same thing for years in shell scripts that are
using a named pipe.  something like:

process 1:
    while :; do sleep 1; date >myfifo; done

process 2:
     cat <>myfifo
	
off the top of my head i can't remember exactly what i've used
this trick for, but i know i have.  (i'm sure, because it's the
only use i've ever made of the "<>" shell syntax.  :-)

paul
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