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| From: | Zack Weinberg |
| Subject: | Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: slow update/status on NFS |
| Date: | Mon, 28 May 2007 22:37:14 -0700 |
On 5/28/07, Pavel Cahyna <address@hidden> wrote:
On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 09:16:48PM -0700, Zack Weinberg wrote: > There are open(2) flags to prevent all of those headaches that I can > think of (O_NOFOLLOW|O_NONBLOCK|O_NOCTTY should do it, in fact)
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Opening a device file can cause tapes to be rewound, reading of partition tables from disks and possibly other strange effects.
I *think* not with O_NONBLOCK... also, if monotone ever sees a device file, something has gone terribly wrong. zw
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