James Antill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> dd has new iflags= and oflags= options with the following flags: >> >> nonblock use non-blocking I/O > > What is this supposed to do when it gets EWOULDBLOCK? There seems to > be no change in the read/write code. So I can only assume it fails > with an error code
Yes, that's what it does. > which seems like the worst behaviour possible. Its only current use that I can see is to have "dd" refuse to block. I can think of uses for that but admittedly they're not something that I would do often. What would be better behavior? That is, what uses should "dd" make of that flag? _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
