O_NDELAY (Re: How can I read keyboard without stopping)

[Michael "Ford" Ditto]

In article <1202 at tjalk.cs.vu.nl> maart at cs.vu.nl () writes:
>Are you saying that the shell will die if a CHILD sets the non-blocking mode?
>I guess your operating system isn't Unix.

I guess you don't know how fcntl works.  File flags are in the file
structure, shared between parent & child processes after a fork.

Try this program:

	#include <fcntl.h>
	main(){fcntl(0, F_SETFL, O_NDELAY);}

and then try to get some work done...
If you're lucky you'll just get logged out.
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