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NONBLOCKING fcntl
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Cheryl Huntington)
Wed Jul 9 18:48:32 1997
Date: Wed, 09 Jul 1997 15:38:23 -0700
From: Cheryl Huntington <clh@swdc.stratus.com>
To: pthreads@MIT.EDU
I've noticed in fd.c, that the function fcntl always sets the fd to be
NONBLOCKING for F_SETFL. I can see why you wouldn't want blocking in
threads, but what if the app really needs blocking? Is it reasonable to
force it to be NONBLOCKING?
Cheryl
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Stratus Western Development Center, Commands and Utilities Group
