possible to do non-blocking write to NFS?

From: Christopher Friesen (cfriesen@nortelnetworks.com)
Date: Mon Dec 03 2001 - 11:02:23 EST

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Is there any way to write to an NFS-mounted filesystem in a way that will avoid
all of the NFS retries? Basically I want to try a write, and if the server is
not accessable I want to return immediately with an error code.

Would setting the O_NONBLOCK flag on opening the file give me this behaviour?

Chris

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