Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: Should O_NONBLOCK be copied from listening socket to accepting socket? | Date | Mon, 4 Sep 2000 22:04:48 +0100 (BST) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> Is it required that the O_NONBLOCK flag be copied from a listening > socket to an accepted socket? Dan Bernstein believes this is a bug.
My posix 1003.1g draft leaves it undefined. It is possible that SuS clarifies this. Unless he can cite a SuS version that has clarified this I believe its like the SIGIO case - inheritance is platform specific.
On the other hand we don't inherit CLOSEONEXEC so why should we inherit NDELAY ?
Alan
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