Re: O_NONBLOCK, read(), select(), NFS, Ext2, etc.

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On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 09:34:08PM -0500, Michael Rothwell wrote:

    The man pages for open, read and write say that if a file is opened
    using the O_NONBLOCK flag, then read() and write() will always return
    immediately and not block the calling process.

the man pages are wrong

  --cw
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