On Sat, Apr 28, 2001 at 10:34:40PM +0200, Ignatios Souvatzis wrote:

 > > I do not exepct to receive SIGIO because the reader at the other end of
 > > a pipe has readen a byte. Do you expect such a behavior? Since NetBSD
 > > seems to be the only OS doing this, I beleive there is a real problem
 > > here.
 > 
 > Hm, when the reader reads one byte, I can write one byte, and if I'm async
 > writing, I deserve to get notified by SIGIO, IMO.

The real question is: do other OSs send the SIGIO only if the buffer
goes from "no room available" to "some room available", or does it
send it when the buffer goes from "some room available" to "some more room
available".

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        -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@zembu.com>