According to POSIX and the Linux man page, select(2) is supposed to
report read ready if a file is at EOF. In the case of a FIFO, this
means that the pipe is empty and there are no writers. But there
seems to be an undocumented exception, observed on Linux and other
platforms: If no writer has ever been opened, then select(2) does not
report read ready. This can happen if a reader is opened with
O_NONBLOCK before any writers have opened.
This commit makes Cygwin consistent with those other platforms by
introducing a special EOF test, fhandler_fifo::select_hit_eof, which
returns false if there's never been a writer opened.
To implement this we use a new variable '_writer_opened' in the FIFO's
shared memory, which is set to 1 the first time a writer opens. New
methods writer_opened() and set_writer_opened() are used to test and
set this variable.
Addresses: https://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin/2022-September/252223.html
Ken Brown
Corinna Vinschen