Re: [PATCH] [2.5] Non-blocking write can block

[Joe Korty]

On Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 03:15:19PM -0400, Richard B. Johnson wrote:
> On Thu, 5 Jun 2003, Mike Fedyk wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> My Sun thinks that O_NDELAY = 0x04 and O_NONBLOCK = 0x80, FWIW.

Same here on my AT&T System V ES/MP box.

As far as semantics go, the two appear to be identical except that
O_NDELAY always returns 0 on a blocking condition while O_NONBLOCK
usually returns EAGAIN and only occasionally returns 0.

Joe

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