On 28 Feb 2010, at 2:20 PM, Dan Poirier wrote:
I am trying to open a fifo on disk with the O_NONBLOCK flag set,
and I
notice that apr's apr_file_open() cannot do this.
As a result, if nobody else is already reading from the fifo,
apr_file_open blocks, and this is the behaviour I want to avoid.
Does anyone know of any reason why this wouldn't work?
Seems reasonable. Have you tried it, or is this still hypothetical?
I have used it extensively on unix (Linux and MacOSX) within software
that makes extensive use of an event driven architecture, however my
knowledge of Windows is limited.
I have code that I would like to eventually have compiled on Windows,
but if I support Windows, I can no longer support unix, thus the
problem. I wanted to check first that there was nothing controversial
I was missing.
It looks like the new flag is using the same bit as
APR_FOPEN_ROTATING.
That's because the patch was created before running the svn update
that brought in APR_FOPEN_ROTATING, it's already been fixed.
Regards,
Graham
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