Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@netbsd.org> writes:

> Not really. However I really want a system call where I can request this 
> on a per-call basis. Otherwise I have to have two open file descriptors, 
> one with and one without this flag set. That seems kinda silly.

It would be interesting if some standard could provide an interface
a-la setsockopt() for non-sockets. But I'm sure it would complicate
the implementation.

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  Rui Paulo			<rpaulo@{NetBSD{,-PT}.org,fnop.net}>