Re: Asynchronous access to disk files

[email protected] (Paul Jarc) Thu, 12 Jun 2003 13:39:01 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.org.djb.miscellaneous
Organization What did you have in mind? A short, blunt, human pyramid?
Message-ID <[email protected]>
"David Phillips" <[email protected]> wrote:
> This page describes the imaginary O_HONESTBLOCKING option:
>
> http://cr.yp.to/unix/asyncdisk.html
>
> Is this option different than O_NONBLOCK because current programs expect
> O_NONBLOCK to be ignored for disk files?

Not just because they expect it, but because it actually is ignored.


paul