On Fri, Mar 31, 2006 at 06:25:53PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Justin Pryzby wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 31, 2006 at 05:22:26PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Package: manpages-dev > > > Version: 2.22-1 > > > > > > /usr/share/man/man2/open.2.gz has (under O_NONBLOCK): > > > "This mode need not have any effect on files other than FIFOs." > > This probably means "Use of O_NONBLOCK on an arbitrary system isn't > > allowed to assume that it will have any effect." > > > > See, for example, </usr/share/doc/susv3/susv3/functions/open.html>, > > which says that behaviour of O_NONBLOCK is unspecified for normal > > files. That it is implemented and useful on Linux is just a nicety :) > > I think that statement is confusing and should document what Linux or > any modern UNIX non-broken system should do. > > That statement should be removed IMHO. Perhaps, but notes about portability can be useful, for example, to avoid writing a whole bunch of nonportable stuff under the assumption that linux manpages aren't totally specific to linux. I don't know where to draw the line, or just how often O_NONBLOCK is limited to special files, or if it is actually documented as working on other systems.
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