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

[Stepan Kasal]

Hello Tim,

> > >      while ((desc = open (file, O_RDONLY | O_NONBLOCK)) < 0
> > >              && errno == EINTR)

my intuition was that it's safer to find out that we don't want to grep
the file before we try to open it.

> Stop the bus!  There is a kernel change to do with opening normal
> files with O_NONBLOCK having unexpected consequences.  It's best
> avoided.

Together with this comment from Tim, O_NONBLOCK is out of question.
But I'll probably check in Benno's patch.

Yours,
        Stepan