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5 Sep 2024 23:17:32 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Quick Linux Question  
From: clipka
Date: 5 Apr 2009 21:55:01
Message: <web.49d9602b5dfbd38b68105bc50@news.povray.org>
Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
> > Search for fcntl() and O_NONBLOCK.
>
> I'm aware of that, but traditionally in UNIX that will still block on disk
> I/O. (Like, if the disk isn't spun up or something like that.) Does it do
> that in modern Linux kernels, or has that been changed?

Unfortunately that's all I know about it. Maybe you'll need to do some
multithreading.


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