Re: Non-blocking I/O

[Matt Thomas <matt%3am-software.com@localhost>]

On Jan 5, 2010, at 6:09 AM, Sad Clouds wrote:

> If I set a file descriptor non-blocking and issue I/O operation on a slow, or 
> heavy loaded disk, how will this affect the process and threads while kernel 
> loads data from disk into core?

Disk I/O is never non-blocking.

> Will it block the thread doing I/O or the entire process?

Just the thread.

> Or will it return with EAGAIN immediately without blocking?

Won't ever do that.