[Twisted-Python] Opening a fifo

[Paul Thomas]

On 14 Nov 2008, at 11:39, Paul Thomas wrote:
>
> On 14 Nov 2008, at 11:00, Phil Mayers wrote:
>
>> Paul Thomas wrote:
>>> On 14 Nov 2008, at 09:47, Phil Mayers wrote:
>>>> Paul Thomas wrote:
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>> I've run into a small problem where my twisted application needs  
>>>>> to open a fifo to talk to another process. On Linux at least,  
>>>>> the open blocks until the other end of the fifo is opened and  
>>>>> this is blocking my reactor.
>>>>
>>

[snip]

>>>> fd = os.open('thefifo', os.O_RDWR)
>>>>
>>>> ...will return immediately,
>>>>

[snip]

> I'll have to wait til Monday to try it out again. I thought the  
> problem was to do with the other process opening the read end  
> between the open and the write. But maybe it was a case of not  
> testing what I thought I was testing.

This works just fine:

fd = os.open('thefifo', os.O_RDWR | os.O_NONBLOCK)

thanks for your help.

Paul.
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