Re: slow open() calls and o_nonblock

[Trond Myklebust]

On Mon, 2007-06-04 at 10:20 -0400, Aaron Wiebe wrote:
> I understand, but this is exactly the situation that I'm complaining
> about.  There is no functionality to provide a nonblocking open - no
> ability to come back around and retry a given open call.

So exactly how would you expect a nonblocking open to work? Should it be
starting I/O? What if that involves blocking? How would you know when to
try again?

  Trond

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