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Would I be correct to say that buffered I/O is necessarily blocking.
In other words I noticed that FNONBLOCK flags cannot? be looked at in a
strategy routine.  Either the block read returns something or it returns
an error, or it times out and returns an error. There is no way to look @
fflags though from a strategy routine, correct?