Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 15 Sep 2000 14:22:47 +0100 (BST) | From | Chris Evans <> | Subject | Re: [2.4][2.2] Bug: accept discards socket options/O_NONBLOCK |
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On Fri, 15 Sep 2000, Matthias Andree wrote:
> BUG DESCRIPTION: > (This is for IPv4, someone would have to check IPv6 as well). > The socket flag O_NONBLOCK is _NOT_ properly inherited through an > accept(2) call, in spite of what socket(7) documents. This is a bug. > accept(2) must copy the file descriptor's flag of the socket.
No-one has yet located a standards document which mandates this behaviour, AFAIK.
Unless such a document is found, the bug lies in dnscache for assuming something it is not entitled to assume.
Cheers Chris
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