Re: [bug-grep] [patch] getting '--devices=skip' to work

[Jeff Moyer]

==> Regarding Re: [bug-grep] [patch] getting '--devices=skip' to work; 
address@hidden adds:

P> Paul Eggert wrote:
>> Tim Waugh <address@hidden> writes:
>> 
>> 
>>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/beta/show_bug.cgi?id=135942

P> FYI this also could be a dupe:
P> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=135905

>> Of the coreutils programs that use O_NONBLOCK:
>> 
>> chown and touch don't do I/O.  dd uses O_NONBLOCK only when the user
>> asks for it explicitly.  shred uses it only on /dev/random.  stty uses
>> it only on its argument, which is supposed to be a device.  (There is a
>> FIXME that this assumption should be checked, but there's more to be
>> fixed here than O_NONBLOCK.)  tail does nonblocking reads in some cases
>> but doesn't use select() or poll().
>> 
>> None of these uses would run afoul of the bug that you mentioned, as far
>> as I can tell.
>> 
>> POSIX is pretty vague about what O_NONBLOCK does, except for pipes,
>> fifos, and sockets.  So if we limited ourselves to what POSIX required,
>> coreutils would require several changes.  I wouldn't bother with this,
>> though, unless there's a real problem.

P> So did the following change make it into redhat kernel-2.6.8-1.624
P> http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0410.0/index.html#0210 and
P> was then subsequently removed?  Note I don't ever see it going into the
P> official kernel.

Yes, the change was reverted, and no, it will not go into the upstream
kernel.

-Jeff