open.2: Mention blocking semantics for FIFO opens

See https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=95191

Reported-by: Jason Vas Dias <jason.vas.dias@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
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Michael Kerrisk 2015-03-22 16:09:36 +01:00
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@ -1250,6 +1250,14 @@ permissions, but UID mapping is performed by the server upon
read and write requests.
.\"
.\"
.SS FIFOs
Opening the read or write end of a FIFO blocks until the other
end is also opened (by another process or thread).
See
.BR fifo (7)
for further details.
.\"
.\"
.SS File access mode
Unlike the other values that can be specified in
.IR flags ,