Re: non-blockling buffered reads

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On Fri, Jun 30, 2017 at 12:46:57AM +0100, Al Viro wrote:
> Hmm...  It's not quite non-blocking, though - copy_page_to_iter() can
> bloody well block, as any copying to userland.  I'm not saying that
> it's a significant problem (if you are reading into something that
> had been mmaped from NFS server, etc., you are getting what you'd
> asked for), but it's worth documenting.

True.  I'll ensure this is documented in the man page.



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