Re: fifo

[Mike Miller]

On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 01:56:59 -0700, MrOba wrote:
> I try to open it with
> octave:11> fid = fopen("tfifo", "w")
>
> as result I have nothing.. no prompt, just the cursor.. I have to quit
> octave with CTRL-C.
> any idea about what's wrong?

The open call is blocking. This is the correct behavior for fifos, see
for example

http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/raring/en/man7/fifo.7.html

If Octave is opening the fifo for writing, the open call will block
until another process has the fifo open for reading.

-- 
mike