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authorJohn Högberg <[email protected]>2018-02-26 10:28:26 +0100
committerJohn Högberg <[email protected]>2018-02-26 12:16:59 +0100
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Allow opening device files and FIFOs with file:open/2
To the best of our knowledge this was introduced since file operations on device files/FIFO:s could hang the emulator forever back when the emulator was single-threaded and lacked IO threads; a read operation could block all progress preventing the write operation it waited for from occurring. Granted, this could still happen through starving all dirty IO schedulers, but the same issue can arise with NFS files which we've always allowed. Removing this restriction also lets us remove a stat(2) call that was added to specifically allow `/dev/null`.
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