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Re: fd sharing and non-blocking
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Larry V. Streepy, Jr.)
Mon Sep 30 15:43:53 1996
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 13:32:35 -0600
From: "Larry V. Streepy, Jr." <streepy@healthcare.com>
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
Cc: pthreads mailing list <pthreads@MIT.EDU>
Greg Hudson wrote:
>
> > I think the solution is to have the "ioctl" wrapper understand
> > FIONBIO calls and properly set the __FD_NONBLOCK flag accordingly.
>
> FIONBIO is not portable. You should use the POSIX fcntl() to set your
> file descriptors non-blocking.
True. I'm porting some existing threaded code to Linux and it was using
ioctl. I modified the pthreads ioctl wrapper to watch for FIONBIO and
set the flags accordingly.
I also checked and the fcntl wrapper "is" getting the flags in the fd
table correct.
Thanks.
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Larry V. Streepy, Jr.
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