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FIFO blocking behaviour

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Subject: FIFO blocking behaviour
From: Edgar Fuß <ef%math.uni-bonn.de@localhost>
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2026 19:36:59 +0200

I couldn't find anything substantial about fifo semantics in the man pages 
or SUS.

Is it defined that writing to a fifo will block until someone has read 
the data from the other end?

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