I understand that it may make sense that one would not need O_NONBLOCKING on
/dev/null but I don't see why it should throw an error.  In other words there's
nothing wrong with it technically (that I know of) and I don't see anything in
the spec that hints to this fact.  In even plainer words, what implimentation is
correct?

Dan


----- Original Message -----
From: "David Laight" <david@l8s.co.uk>
To: <Undisclosed-recipients:>
Cc: <current-users@netbsd.org>
Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2002 10:24 AM
Subject: Re: setting O_NONBLOCK on /dev/null


> On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 09:58:03AM -0800, Dan wrote:
> > >         fprintf(stderr,"%d\n",fcntl(1, F_SETFL, O_NONBLOCK));
> > ~ $ ./mytest >/dev/null
> > -1
>
> Mmmm... Well /dev/null is always non blocking :-)
> So maybe it should be an error to clear it :-)
>
> David
>
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