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| author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2020-04-08 21:51:14 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2020-04-08 21:51:14 -0700 |
| commit | 5d30bcacd91af6874481129797af364a53cd9b46 (patch) | |
| tree | 6fa78933a347402750e8a1c35da615e49611ff31 /Documentation | |
| parent | fcc95f06403c956e3f50ca4a82db12b66a3078e0 (diff) | |
| parent | c6f141412d24c8d8a9d98ef45303c0235829044b (diff) | |
Merge tag '9p-for-5.7-2' of git://github.com/martinetd/linux
Pull 9p documentation update from Dominique Martinet:
"Document the new O_NONBLOCK short read behavior"
* tag '9p-for-5.7-2' of git://github.com/martinetd/linux:
9p: document short read behaviour with O_NONBLOCK
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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/9p.rst | 10 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/9p.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/9p.rst index f054d1c45e86..671fef39a802 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/9p.rst +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/9p.rst @@ -158,6 +158,16 @@ Options /sys/fs/9p/caches. (applies only to cache=fscache) ============= =============================================================== +Behavior +======== + +This section aims at describing 9p 'quirks' that can be different +from a local filesystem behaviors. + + - Setting O_NONBLOCK on a file will make client reads return as early + as the server returns some data instead of trying to fill the read + buffer with the requested amount of bytes or end of file is reached. + Resources ========= |