Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 1 Aug 2006 13:28:10 +0000 (GMT) | From | moreau francis <> | Subject | Re : [HW_RNG] How to use generic rng in kernel space |
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> O_NONBLOCK doesn't necessarily imply "never sleep", it implies "don't > sleep waiting for an event/long time". So where the mutex is just > serializing access to hardware that will be very brief it is fine not to > check O_NONBLOCK/FNDELAY.
Thank you Alan for answering ! One more question I hope you don't mind... I'm not very confident with all these POSIX definitions. Do you have any pointers that I should know to get more familiar with them ?
Thanks
Francis
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