having problem with mkfifo I/O operations in android

[Shahriar Vaghar]

Hello,

Please direct me to the right group if this not right one.

I am using named pipe for inter-process communication in my native processes on android arm 64 (version > 24).

I use mkfifo to create the named pipe successfully. I set the size of the pipe to 264KB.

The problems is the writer side reports EAGAIN (11) after writing less than 10KB in to the pipe and can never recover from the error.

        aec_fd = open(pipe_name, O_WRONLY | O_SYNC | O_NONBLOCK);

        pipeFD = open(pipe_name, O_RDONLY);

        bytes_wrote = write(aec_fd, buffer, bytes);

Why the pipe overflows so fast? How do you recover from it?

Best regards, Shahriar

[Dan Albert]

EAGAIN doesn't mean the pipe is full, it means the operation was interrupted. Use TEMP_FAILURE_RETRY.

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[Shahriar Vaghar]

Hi

Thanks for the suggestion. I'll try that.

To give you more information about my problem

In normal runtime condition, write returns EAGAIN after a while several minutes.

But to find out why, I tested by not reading from the pipe. Write returns EAGAIN after 6 writes of 1K buffer.