Justin Pryzby wrote: > On Fri, Mar 31, 2006 at 05:22:26PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Package: manpages-dev > > Version: 2.22-1 > > > > /usr/share/man/man2/open.2.gz has (under O_NONBLOCK): > > "This mode need not have any effect on files other than FIFOs." > This probably means "Use of O_NONBLOCK on an arbitrary system isn't > allowed to assume that it will have any effect." > > See, for example, </usr/share/doc/susv3/susv3/functions/open.html>, > which says that behaviour of O_NONBLOCK is unspecified for normal > files. That it is implemented and useful on Linux is just a nicety :)
I think that statement is confusing and should document what Linux or any modern UNIX non-broken system should do. That statement should be removed IMHO. Prueba el Nuevo Correo Terra; Seguro, Rápido, Fiable.
