On Wed, Jun 04, 2003 at 05:19:05PM -0700, Davide Libenzi wrote:
> Besides the stupid name O_REALLYNONBLOCK, it really should be different
> from both O_NONBLOCK and O_NDELAY. Currently in Linux they both map to the
> same value, so you really need a new value to not break binary compatibility.
Hmm, wouldn't that be source and binary compatability? If an app used
O_NDELAY and O_NONBLOCK interchangably, then a change to O_NDELAY would
break source compatability too.
Also, what do other UNIX OSes do? Do they have seperate semantics for
O_NONBLOCK and O_NDELAY? If so, then it would probably be better to change
O_NDELAY to be similar and add another feature at the same time as reducing
platform specific codeing in userspace.
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