On Tue, 1 Mar 2005, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > > I tend to agree that previously it was working by luck, and I suspect > it's still working by luck in openbsd too, since openbsd seem to do very > similar to what linux was doing in 2.6.5-rc11 (and 2.6.5-rc11 made a lot > more sense than 2.6.9 and previous)
I assume you mean 2.6.11-rc5, not 2.6.5-rc11. > http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007908799/xsh/poll.html > > POLLIN > Data other than high-priority data may be read without blocking. [..] > POLLRDNORM > Normal data (priority band equals 0) may be read without blocking. [..] > > btw, I don't really know the difference of POLLIN and POLLRDNORM As you say, for pipes, none. It only matters on sockets that can have urgent data (aka oob - out-of-band data). Linus - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
