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Re: Adding an option to avoid SIGPIPE for all file descriptors



On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 03:07:45AM +0000, David Holland wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 09:28:48PM -0500, Christos Zoulas wrote:
>  > [stuff]
> 
> One thing jumps out at me: if it's a file-level flag, shouldn't it be
> sufficient to use F_GETFL / F_SETFL to manipulate it, rather than
> adding new fcntls?

You want to be careful with that because of all the idiots who
F_SETFL to O_NONBLOCK without getting the old value first. :-/

Thor


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