From 7c81ac9ced01451fe86a208c7ffbfab60e1a0b42 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michael Kerrisk Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2013 01:29:45 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] 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 Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk --- man2/read.2 | 9 --------- 1 file changed, 9 deletions(-) diff --git a/man2/read.2 b/man2/read.2 index 22289a99b..d79b49d65 100644 --- a/man2/read.2 +++ b/man2/read.2 @@ -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),