Clearing O_NONBLOCK from a pipe may lose data

Tue Feb 24 13:45:00 GMT 2015

Lasse Collin had written.
> ... the possibility of EINTR is mentioned for specific commands and F_SETFL isn't among them.
A subtle and maybe minor but valid objection.
Am 23.02.2015 um 13:23 schrieb Corinna Vinschen:
> On Feb 23 11:56, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>> On Feb 22 22:07, Lasse Collin wrote:
>>> Alternative idea: Would there be a significant downside if Cygwin
>>> remembered if non-blocking mode was enabled at some point and close()
>>> would use that flag instead of the current (non)blocking status to
>>> determine if the background thread hack should be used?
>> No, that should be doable with very minor effort.
> That's still an option, of course.
I think that sounds like a solution.
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