Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 4 Jun 2003 15:58:06 +0100 (BST) | From | "P. Benie" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] [2.5] Non-blocking write can block |
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On Wed, 4 Jun 2003, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> No no no, it's wrong. > > If you do something like this, then you also have to teach "select()" > about this, otherwise you just get busy looping in applications. > > In general, we shouldn't do this, unless somebody can show an application > where it really matters.
I wrote the patch to solve a real-world problem with wall(1), which occasionally gets stuck writing to somebody's tty. I think it's reasonable for wall to assume that non-blocking writes are non-blocking.
I'll think about how to do the patch correctly.
Peter
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