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Although we can have multiple readers open because of dup/fork/exec, the current code does not support multiple readers opening a FIFO by explicitly calling 'open'. The main complication in supporting this is that when a blocking reader tries to open and there's already one open, it has to check whether there any writers open. It can't rely on the write_ready event, whose state hasn't changed since the first writer opened. To fix this, add two new named events, check_write_ready_evt and write_ready_ok_evt, and a new method, check_write_ready(). The first event signals the owner's reader thread to call check_write_ready(), which polls the fc_handler list to check for connected writers. If it finds none, it checks to see if there's a writer in the process and then sets/resets write_ready appropriately. When check_write_ready() finishes it sets write_ready_ok_evt to signal the reader that write_ready has been updated. The polling is done via fifo_client_handler::pipe_state(). As long as it's calling that function anyway, check_write_ready() updates the state of each handler. Also add a new lock to prevent a race if two readers are trying to open simultaneously.
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