Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] xc_evtchn_*() interfaces

[John Levon <levon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 08:06:18PM +0100, Keir Fraser wrote:

> >No longer open the device as non-blocking: all reads immediately follow
> >a select() on the device indicating it's ready to read.
> 
> Why change this?

Because not all users specified O_NONBLOCK, so to keep the exact same
code would mean complicating the API a little bit. As there is no extant
code that actually takes advantage of O_NONBLOCK, it's pointless having
the extra code (note that xenstore would actually die if it ever got
EAGAIN...)

regards
john

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