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From: akira@atson.asahi-np.co.jp (Akira Takiguchi)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: A question about read() system call!!
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Date: 23 May 91 08:14:18 GMT
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Reply-To: akira@anprda.atson.asahi-np.co.jp (Akira Takiguchi)
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In article <690002@hpsciz.sc.hp.com> dougy@hpsciz.sc.hp.com (Doug Yip) writes:
[noblocking read(2)]
>If the file is already open, you can do a fcntl(fd,F_SETFL,O_NDELAY).

     ok.

>If the file is not open yet, you can specify the O_NDELAY option when you
>open the file.

     This has nothing to do with the problem.  It makes open(2) non-blocking
but not read(2).
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