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- From: les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell)
- Subject: Re: Non blocking open of FIFO: Can it be done in perl?
- Message-ID: <Bxz8C8.Gzq@chinet.chi.il.us>
- Keywords: O_NDELAY in open on a FIFO
- Organization: Chinet - Public Access UNIX
- References: <bmarlowe.722046368@ka> <mcook.722100624@fendahl.dev.cdx.mot.com>
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- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 18:50:31 GMT
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- In article <mcook.722100624@fendahl.dev.cdx.mot.com> mcook@fendahl.dev.cdx.mot.com (Michael Cook) writes:
- >bmarlowe@ka.reg.uci.edu (Brett Marlowe) writes:
- >
- >>is the there a way to specify O_NDELAY on an open call?
- >
- >No, but you can tweak the filehandle afterwards. See fcntl.
-
- Ummm, afterwards won't ever come if there isn't another process on
- the other end of the FIFO.
-
- Les Mikesell
- les@chinet.chi.il.us
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