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From: Dan Kegel <dank@kegel.com>
To: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [patch rfc] towards supporting O_NONBLOCK on regular files
Date: Tue, 05 Oct 2004 06:07:04 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <41629C78.60203@kegel.com> (raw)

Marcelo wrote:
 > Curiosity: Is this defined in any UNIX standard?

No.  See
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/open.html
which leaves it undefined.

http://www.pasc.org/interps/unofficial/db/p1003.1/pasc-1003.1-71.html
says implementations have to allow setting O_NONBLOCK even if they
ignore it.

http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/9911.3/0530.html
claims other Unixes and NT implement it.

There's a thread that discusses this in a bit of detail, and
suggests that older Solaris might implement it:
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-arch/2003-April/000132.html
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-arch/2003-April/000134.html

Googling for O_NONBLOCK disk seems to be good.  I'd google more
but my baby is calling :-)
- Dan
-- 
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             reply	other threads:[~2004-10-05 14:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-10-05 13:07 Dan Kegel [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-10-01 20:57 [patch rfc] towards supporting O_NONBLOCK on regular files Jeff Moyer
2004-10-03 19:48 ` Pavel Machek
2004-10-13 14:28   ` Jeff Moyer
2004-10-14 17:39     ` Pavel Machek
2004-10-05 11:27 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2004-10-06 13:13   ` Jeff Moyer
2004-10-06 12:01     ` Marcelo Tosatti
2004-10-07  3:31       ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2004-10-07 10:12         ` Marcelo Tosatti
2004-10-07 12:30           ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-10-11 18:32           ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2004-10-11 18:58             ` Jeff Moyer
2004-10-11 21:49               ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2004-10-13 14:26                 ` Jeff Moyer
2004-10-15 15:44                   ` Jeff Moyer
2004-10-15 16:19                     ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2004-10-17  7:59                     ` Alexandre Oliva
2004-10-17 11:20                       ` Ingo Molnar
2004-10-17 19:38                         ` Alexandre Oliva
2004-10-18 16:51                           ` Jeff Moyer
2004-10-19  6:04                             ` Alexandre Oliva
2004-10-21 20:14                             ` James Antill
2004-10-05 15:35 ` Rik van Riel

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