Hmm, on which OS? And are you talking of traditonal pipes created with pipe(), or about socket pairs? That the non-blocking flag would not be local to a socket end point sounds quite bizarre.

/ Niels Möller ()

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2003-03-19 13:41: Subject: I/O callbacks in blocking mode

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As an example, you cannot set pipes to nonblocking mode without also causing the remote end to switch to nonblocking operation.

/ Per Hedbor ()