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Old 06-30-2009
jackhab jackhab is offline
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Can FIFO file overfow?

I want to output logger information into FIFO file. My application can run for months. My question is what happens to FIFO file when there is one side constantly writing to it and nobody on the other side reading from it?
Will it eventually stuck, overflow, reset, will it take all OS's RAM?

Thanks.