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Detection of pipe close with POLLHUP poll(3) event

Added by Christian Babeux over 11 years ago. Updated over 8 years ago.

Status:
Confirmed
Priority:
Low
Assignee:
-
Target version:
Start date:
12/10/2012
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Description

On Linux, the POLLHUP poll(3) event is used to signal that the other end
of a pipe has been disconnected. Due to poor wording in the Single UNIX
Specification, differents UNIX implementation signal the EOF with
conflicting poll events [1].

The current implementation of pipe close detection in lttng-tools uses
the POLLHUP event. This could lead to infinite looping in threads on
platforms such as OpenBSD/Cygwin.

Possible workaround in 060a32b279132ceeeef14b96a611077195a2ca46.

Creating this issue so we don't forget this limitation if we want eventually
want to support those platforms.

[1] - http://www.greenend.org.uk/rjk/tech/poll.html

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