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SubjectRe: [RESEND][RFC PATCH v2] waitfd
FromScott James Remnant <>
DateSat, 10 Jan 2009 21:20:19 +0000
On Sat, 2009-01-10 at 16:14 -0500, Casey Dahlin wrote:

> From the perspective of waitfd, the only difference between WNOHANG and
> O_NONBLOCK is which argument you put the flags in. The API should only
> support one or the other, but internally they would imply the same thing.
> 
Well, you get O_NONBLOCK for free by having a file descriptor; and you
can't turn off people trying to turn it on/off with fcntl() - so you may
as well just use that, no? :-)

Scott
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