Is having to use fcntl and os really so awful? At least it requires the programmer to prove he knows what he's doing putting this file into non-blocking mode, and that he really wants to do it. ;-)
I'd tend to agree. :) Moreover, I don't think fread/fwrite are guaranteed to work as you would expect with non-blocking file descriptors. So, providing a setblocking() call to files would require calling read/write instead of fread/fwrite in all the file methods, at least when in non-blocking mode. I don't think that's a good idea.
James
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