Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 17 Mar 2000 13:57:44 +0000 (GMT) | From | Matthew Kirkwood <> | Subject | Re: what is a "writtable" fd in select? |
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On Thu, 16 Mar 2000, Marty Leisner wrote:
> It seems when you go into select on a pipe (in this case a named > pipe), freebsd and solaris come out of select when you can write some > data to the pipe (i.e. 512-1k). linux comes out of the select when > the pipe is empty.
I suspect that it's so that you can guarantee an atomic write of PIPE_BUF bytes.
Matthew.
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