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Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2002 14:11:22 -0700
From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: Amos Waterland <apw@us.ibm.com>
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Subject: Re: O_ASYNC question
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On Tue, Jun 25, 2002 at 11:30:52AM -0500, Amos Waterland wrote:
> The man page for fcntl() says:
>     If you set the O_ASYNC status flag on a file descriptor (either by
>     providing this flag with the open(2) call, or by using the F_SETFL
>     command of fcntl), a SIGIO signal is sent whenever input or output
>     becomes possible on that file descriptor.

Not done for files and you need fsetown() for sockets and tty's.


Cheers,
Bill
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