Fixing grep -D skip

[Xin Li]

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On 01/18/13 08:39, John Baldwin wrote:
> On Thursday, January 17, 2013 9:33:53 pm David Xu wrote:
>> I am trying to fix a bug in GNU grep, the bug is if you want to 
>> skip FIFO file, it will not work, for example:
>> 
>> grep -D skip aaa .
>> 
>> it will be stucked on a FIFO file.
>> 
>> Here is the patch: 
>> http://people.freebsd.org/~davidxu/patch/grep.c.diff2
>> 
>> Is it fine to be committed ?
> 
> I think the first part definitely looks fine.  My guess is the 
> non-blocking change is als probably fine, but that should be run
> by the bsdgrep person at least.

I (disclaimer: not bsdgrep person) have just tested that bsdgrep
handle this case just fine.

The non-blocking part is required to make the code function, otherwise
the system will block on open() if fifo don't have another opener.
I'd say "Yes" for this p

Cheers,
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Xin LI <delphij at delphij.net>    https://www.delphij.net/
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