Authentication-Results: minnie.tuhs.org;
	dkim=fail reason="signature verification failed" (2048-bit key; unprotected) header.d=gmail.com header.i=@gmail.com header.b="vQsSw1Ym";
	dkim-atps=neutral
From: Rob Pike <robpike@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 1 Jun 2020 08:01:58 +1000
To: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] non-blocking IO
Cc: TUHS main list <tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>, Paul Ruizendaal <pnr@planet.nl>
Errors-To: tuhs-bounces@minnie.tuhs.org
Sender: "TUHS" <tuhs-bounces@minnie.tuhs.org>

>
> 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.

-rob