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read.2: Remove crufty text about O_NONBLOCK on files 

See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=700529

Reported-by: Marc Lehmann <debian-reportbug@plan9.de>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
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Michael Kerrisk 2013-02-14 01:29:45 +01:00
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@ -184,15 +184,6 @@ server side reads.
UNIX semantics can be obtained by disabling client
side attribute caching, but in most situations this will substantially
increase server load and decrease performance.
.PP
Many file systems and disks were considered to be fast enough that the
implementation of
.B O_NONBLOCK
was deemed unnecessary.
So,
.B O_NONBLOCK
may not be available on files
and/or disks.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.BR close (2),
.BR fcntl (2),