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Re:What's So Bad About Posix I/O? by hoytech on Tuesday September 12, 2017 @10:03AM (#15227321)
I agree completely. Pedantically, there is one other option: return an error like windows select does (WSAENOTSOCK). But then apps need special cases to deal with files and life is horrible.
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