O_NONBLOCK has only effect on IPC descriptors, like sockets and
pipes. It doesn't have any effects for file descriptors.

Jaromir

Michael Core wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have some badly burned cd-roms. When I want to read a file from it and
> set the fd to O_NONBLOCK read() does still block for a few seconds.
> Shouldn't read() return something like EAGAIN instead? Of course, read()
> reports the I/O error but I would prefer if it returned _immediately_
> with EAGAIN or EIO. Otherwise you cannot trust O_NONBLOCK at all.
> Perhaps I just don't understand O_NONBLOCK.
> 
> Michael
> 


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