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From: Mike Fedyk <mfedyk@matchmail.com>
To: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
Cc: Ed Vance <EdV@macrolink.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [2.5] Non-blocking write can block
Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2003 11:34:08 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030605183408.GB3291@matchmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.55.0306041717230.3655@bigblue.dev.mcafeelabs.com>

On Wed, Jun 04, 2003 at 05:19:05PM -0700, Davide Libenzi wrote:
> Besides the stupid name O_REALLYNONBLOCK, it really should be different
> from both O_NONBLOCK and O_NDELAY. Currently in Linux they both map to the
> same value, so you really need a new value to not break binary compatibility.

Hmm, wouldn't that be source and binary compatability?  If an app used
O_NDELAY and O_NONBLOCK interchangably, then a change to O_NDELAY would
break source compatability too.

Also, what do other UNIX OSes do?  Do they have seperate semantics for
O_NONBLOCK and O_NDELAY?  If so, then it would probably be better to change
O_NDELAY to be similar and add another feature at the same time as reducing
platform specific codeing in userspace.

  reply	other threads:[~2003-06-05 18:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-06-05  0:04 Ed Vance
2003-06-05  0:19 ` Davide Libenzi
2003-06-05 18:34   ` Mike Fedyk [this message]
2003-06-05 19:15     ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-06-05 21:46       ` Joe Korty
2003-06-06  0:13     ` Davide Libenzi
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-06-06 12:13 Nicholas Berry
2003-06-04 19:36 Hua Zhong
2003-06-04 20:09 ` Hua Zhong
     [not found] <20030604172026$296c@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found] ` <20030604175013$3a4d@gated-at.bofh.it>
2003-06-04 19:13   ` Ben Pfaff
2003-06-04  0:58 P. Benie
2003-06-04  5:53 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-06-04 14:35   ` Linus Torvalds
2003-06-04 14:58     ` P. Benie
2003-06-04 16:47     ` Alan Cox
2003-06-04 17:57       ` Linus Torvalds
2003-06-04 19:46         ` P. Benie
2003-06-04 19:56           ` Linus Torvalds
2003-06-04 20:48             ` P. Benie
2003-06-11  0:19               ` Robert White
2003-06-04 20:43           ` Hua Zhong
2003-06-04 23:42           ` Russell King
2003-06-04 23:47             ` Davide Libenzi
2003-06-04 21:29         ` Alan Cox
2003-06-04 17:14     ` Hua Zhong
2003-06-04 17:41       ` Linus Torvalds
2003-06-04 18:44         ` Hua Zhong
2003-06-04 18:47           ` P. Benie
2003-06-04 19:23             ` P. Benie
2003-06-04 19:20           ` Linus Torvalds
2003-06-04 17:53       ` Mike Dresser

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