SETBLOCK(1)

💅 setblock(1) — the setblock program ✨

SYNOPSIS 🦋

setblock [{+|-}fd ...] [: command arg ...]

DESCRIPTION 💖

okay so bestie, setblock is literally a tiny little fd vibe-flipper. It sets each given file descriptor to be blocking when you use +, or non-blocking when you use -. Then it execs the given command, if any. No cap.

A colon : is the separator between the file descriptors and the command. That's the whole divide, iykyk.

• +fd — set that given file descriptor to be blocking ✨
• -fd — set that given file descriptor to be non-blocking 💅
• : — separates the file descriptors from the command 🎀
• command arg ... — the command to exec after the fd setup, if any 🫶

For example, this command sets file descriptor 3 to be nonblocking and file descriptor 4 to be blocking:

setblock -3 +4

Heads up bestie: the example is literally doing fd 3 with - → nonblocking, and fd 4 with + → blocking. The vibes are opposite-sign, the facts are exact. 😭

source/version + date sign-off: the footer is just the program name again with empty () and everything, but no version and no date attached, so that's the entire page — periodt, bestie 💖🎀