[MPlayer-dev-eng] Re: kernel: to do_select(pipe) or not to do

Alexander Strasser eclipse7 at gmx.net
Mon Nov 22 21:45:51 CET 2004


Robert Nagy wrote ( On Mon, Nov 22, 2004 at 10:13:02PM +0100 ):
> On Mon Nov 22 05:55:40 CET 2004, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> >and also make sure that anything that checks EAGAIN also checks for 
> >EWOULDBLOCK.
> As I know EWOULDBLOCK is an alias of EAGAIN. What is the point in checking
> for both?

hmm since when do you know all old UNIX systems?
AFAIK EAGAIN shouldn't even be there in the older ones, same game for
O_NONBLOCK.

Read the previous mails...

  Alex (beastd)




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