Re: O_NONBLOCK, read(), select(), NFS, Ext2, etc.

Chris Wedgwood (cw@f00f.org)
Fri, 12 Jan 2001 16:28:40 +1300


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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