H. Peter Anvin wrote: > 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.
That reminds me of this patch: http://lkml.org/lkml/2004/10/1/217 which went in for a while but was reverted: http://lkml.org/lkml/2004/10/17/17 Pádraig - 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/
