Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 01 Jun 2007 08:52:33 -0700 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] sendfile removal |
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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.
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