[Bug 856] scp hangs on FIFOs rather than erroring

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http://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=856





------- Additional Comments From dtucker at zip.com.au  2004-05-02 15:25 -------
The last bit of the description of O_NONBLOCK (after the description of the
behaviour with FIFOs and block/char specials) is:

"Otherwise, the behavior of O_NONBLOCK is unspecified."

Can we rely on all platforms to do something reasonable with O_NONBLOCK on
normal files?  On the other hand, stat'ing it to find out if it's a FIFO or
device first is racy...



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