RE: O_NONBLOCK setting "leak" outside of a process??

From: David Schwartz
Date: Sat Feb 03 2007 - 19:56:59 EST



> That's a bug, right? I couldn't find anything to that effect in IEEE
> Std. 1003.1, 2004 Edition...
>
> Ciao,
> Roland

It's not a bug, there's no rational alternative. What would two indepedent
file descriptors for the same end of a TCP connection be? What happens when
you call 'dup' on a file descriptor? The behavior is both the only logical
behavior and consistent with other cases where a file descriptor is
split/duplicated.

DS


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