multiprocessing.eclass: work around Cygwin FIFO shortcoming

Cygwin does not support multiple read-handles for one FIFO (yet).
As we really need just one readonly- and one writeonly-handle, we can
reorder to open one single readwrite- and one writeonly-handle.

X-Gentoo-Bug: 583962
X-Gentoo-Bug-URL: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=583962
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Michael Haubenwallner
2016-04-27 15:21:52 +00:00
committed by Michael Haubenwallner
parent 4429daa932
commit 077e60fb9c

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@@ -139,11 +139,16 @@ multijob_init() {
# Setup a pipe for children to write their pids to when they finish.
# We have to allocate two fd's because POSIX has undefined behavior
# when you open a FIFO for simultaneous read/write. #487056
# when using one single fd for both read and write. #487056
# However, opening an fd for read or write only will block until the
# opposite end is opened as well. Thus we open the first fd for both
# read and write to not block ourselve, but use it for reading only.
# The second fd really is opened for write only, as Cygwin supports
# just one single read fd per FIFO. #583962
local pipe="${T}/multijob.pipe"
mkfifo -m 600 "${pipe}"
redirect_alloc_fd mj_write_fd "${pipe}"
redirect_alloc_fd mj_read_fd "${pipe}"
redirect_alloc_fd mj_write_fd "${pipe}" '>'
rm -f "${pipe}"
# See how many children we can fork based on the user's settings.