O_NONBLOCK problems with an offline file

[Vitezslav Cizek]

Hello,
I'm reporting the very same problem as previously against tar:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-tar/2012-01/msg00000.html

The O_NONBLOCK flag causes problems on hierarchical storage systems.
Accessing an offline or partial-state file on these file systems thus 
results with a corrupted file.

Dropping the O_NONBLOCK flag to open() solves the issue.
A different fix was introduced to tar - dropping the flag with fcntl() 
after a subsequent read/write returns EAGAIN.

CCing Ron Kerry, as he originally stumbled upon both these bugs.

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Vita Cizek

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