I found 8.3 is a history BSD version using socket to implement FIFO
pipe, it uses per-file seqcount to compare with writer generation
stored in per-pipe object. The concept is after all writers are gone,
the pipe enters next generation, all old readers have not closed the
pipe should get the indication that the pipe is disconnected, result
is they should get EPIPE, SIGPIPE or get POLLHUP in poll().
But newcomer should not know that previous writters were gone, it
should treat it as a fresh session.
I am trying to bring back FIFO pipe to history behavior. It is still
unclear that if single EOF flag can represent SBS_CANTSENDMORE and
SBS_CANTRCVMORE which socket-based version is using, but I have run
the poll regression test in tool directory, output is same as the one
on 8.3-STABLE now.
I think the output "not ok 18 FIFO state 6b: poll result 0 expected 1.
expected POLLHUP; got 0" might be bogus, because newcomer should not
know that old writers were gone. I got the same behavior on Linux.
Our implementation always return POLLIN for disconnected pipe even it
should return POLLHUP, but I think it is not wise to remove POLLIN for
compatible reason, this is our history behavior.
Regression test: /usr/src/tools/regression/poll
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