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SubjectRe: [RFC v2 0/5] Non-blockling buffered fs read (page cache only)
On Fri, 19 Sep 2014 13:33:14 -0400
Milosz Tanski <milosz@adfin.com> wrote:

> > - Non-blocking I/O has long been supported with a well-understood set
> > of operations - O_NONBLOCK and fcntl(). Why do we need a different
> > mechanism here - one that's only understood in the context of
> > buffered file I/O? I assume you didn't want to implement support
> > for poll() and all that, but is that a good enough reason to add a
> > new Linux-specific non-blocking I/O technique?
>
> I realized that I didn't answer this question well in my other long
> email. O_NONBLOCK doesn't work on files under any commonly used OS,
> and people have gotten use to this behavior so I doubt we could change
> that without breaking a lot of folks applications.

So I'm not contesting this, but I am genuinely curious: do you think
there are applications out there requesting non-blocking behavior on
regular files that will then break if they actually get non-blocking
behavior? I don't suppose you have an example?

Thanks,

jon


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