O_NONBLOCK for pipes

Christopher Faylor cgf@redhat.com
Sat Sep 20 16:05:00 GMT 2003


On Sat, Sep 20, 2003 at 01:13:53PM +0400, "Artem Khodush"  wrote:
>I have straightforward patch, containing about 20 lines of new code,
>which implements O_NONBLOCK fcntl for pipes using
>SetNamedPipeHandleState NT API call.
>
>Two questions before I send it:
>
>Will it be considered trivial, so that copyright assignement is not
>required?

No, sorry.

>Is there some deep reason, which I don't see, why this was not
>implemented before?

What does it buy you?  O_NONBLOCK is already implemented for pipes
without this call, AFAIK.

cgf



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