Re: read side of pipe and poll() events

[Thor Lancelot Simon <tls%panix.com@localhost>]

On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 09:57:15AM -0800, john heasley wrote:
> 
> good point; i didn't think of the two (nor device) differently.  but, why
> should they be different?  SuSv3 doesn't mention socket either.  Its just
> a file descriptor though; shouldn't it be consistent?

So is a terminal.  Yet non-blocking I/O behavior varies wildly between
terminals and everything else...

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