From: Chris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org>
To: Michael Rothwell <rothwell@holly-springs.nc.us>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: O_NONBLOCK, read(), select(), NFS, Ext2, etc.
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 16:28:40 +1300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010112162840.A14811@metastasis.f00f.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200101120327.f0C3Rxc02512@513.holly-springs.nc.us>
In-Reply-To: <200101120327.f0C3Rxc02512@513.holly-springs.nc.us>; from rothwell@holly-springs.nc.us on Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 09:34:08PM -0500
On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 09:34:08PM -0500, Michael Rothwell wrote:
The man pages for open, read and write say that if a file is opened
using the O_NONBLOCK flag, then read() and write() will always return
immediately and not block the calling process.
the man pages are wrong
--cw
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-01-12 3:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-01-12 2:34 Michael Rothwell
2001-01-12 3:28 ` Chris Wedgwood [this message]
2001-01-12 9:40 ` Alan Cox
2001-01-12 14:55 ` Michael Rothwell
2001-01-12 16:34 ` Alexander V. Lukyanov
2001-01-12 15:18 Andries.Brouwer
2001-01-12 18:10 Dan Kegel
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