1 Jun
2020
1 Jun
'20
9:32 a.m.
On Mon, 1 Jun 2020, Rob Pike wrote:
I’m not quite sure why the Research lineage did not
include
non-blocking behaviour, especially in view of the man page comments.
Maybe it was seen as against the Unix philosophy, with select()
offering sufficient mechanism to avoid blocking (with open() the hard
corner case)?
That's it. Select was good enough for our purposes.
After being dragged through both Berserkley and SysVile, I never did get
the hang of poll()/select() etc,,,
-- Dave