ditto@cbmvax.UUCP (Michael "Ford" Ditto) (08/23/88)
In article <1202@tjalk.cs.vu.nl> maart@cs.vu.nl () writes: >Are you saying that the shell will die if a CHILD sets the non-blocking mode? >I guess your operating system isn't Unix. I guess you don't know how fcntl works. File flags are in the file structure, shared between parent & child processes after a fork. Try this program: #include <fcntl.h> main(){fcntl(0, F_SETFL, O_NDELAY);} and then try to get some work done... If you're lucky you'll just get logged out. -- -=] Ford [=- . . (In Real Life: Mike Ditto) . : , ford@kenobi.cts.com This space under construction, ...!ucsd!elgar!ford pardon our dust. ditto@cbmvax.commodore.com