error setting pipe to non-blocking IO

Brian Ford ford@vss.fsi.com
Sat Oct 18 02:11:00 GMT 2003


Actually, it looks like this might work. YMMV

On Fri, 17 Oct 2003, Brian Ford wrote:

> On Fri, 17 Oct 2003, Andy Howell wrote:
>
> > I am trying to setup a pipe to do non-blocking IO:
> >
> > int main()
> > {
> > 	int pipefd[2];
> > 	int n;
> > 	n = 1;
> >
> > 	pipe(pipefd);
> > 	perror("Pipe: ");
> > 	ioctl(pipefd[0], FIOBIO, &n);
> >
use:
        fcntl(pipefd[0], F_SETFL, O_NONBLOCK);
instead.

PTC for FIOBIO, although I can't even find what header that's in?

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Brian Ford
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VITAL - Visual Simulation Systems
FlightSafety International
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