Eric Dumazet wrote:
>
> As I said, this new non blocking feature on the input side (disk), is
> nice and usefull. (For people scared by splice() syscall :) )
>
> Just have to mention it is a change of behavior, and documentation
> probably needs to reflect this change. "Since linux 2.6.23, sendfile()
> repects O_NONBLOCK on in_fd as well"
>
Fair enough. Unix has traditionally not acknowledged the possibility of
nonblocking I/O on conventional files, for some odd reason.
-hpa
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