Re: hurd translator

[Neal H Walfield <neal@cs.uml.edu>]

> This is not something that can be done this way in Unix, so a program would
> not expect it to work the way it is written above, so in the Unix world this
> is not a useful feature to have.

Try this:

        neal@bassanio:~ (0)$ mkfifo foo
        neal@bassanio:~ (0)$ while /bin/true; do echo foo > foo; echo X; done
        X
        X
        X
        bash: foo: Interrupted system call
        neal@bassanio:~ (1)$ 

This was produced by running:

        neal@bassanio:~ (0)$ cat foo
        foo
        neal@bassanio:~ (0)$ cat foo
        foo
        neal@bassanio:~ (0)$ cat foo
        foo

Remember, cat waits until it receives an EOF.