Hi, On Sat, Apr 13, 2002 at 10:15:42AM -0400, Douglas Gilbert wrote: > >Does this work with the other operating systems also. Or to be more > >exact, O_NONBLOCK compiles everywhere? The man page suggests that it's > >not Linux-specific. > > That is a difficult one to answer. Device drivers tend to > interpret O_RDONLY, O_EXCL and O_NONBLOCK (etc) in a way > that is appropriate for those drivers and what is permitted > by the kernel architecture. The standards pin down those flags' > behaviour for normal files, pipes, etc.
Ok, to be sure, I have only enabled O_NONBLOCK for USE == LINUX_INTERFACE. If someone want to enable this for his operating system, go on. Bye, Henning
