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    SubjectRe: UDP recvmsg blocks after select(), 2.6 bug?
    David S. Miller wrote:
    > On Wed, 6 Oct 2004 16:52:27 +0200 (CEST)
    > Joris van Rantwijk <joris@eljakim.nl> wrote:
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    >>My understanding of POSIX is limited, but it seems to me that a read call
    >>must never block after select just said that it's ok to read from the
    >>descriptor. So any such behaviour would be a kernel bug.
    >
    >
    > There is no such guarentee.

    Hmm, the man page for select() says:

    "Those listed in readfds will be watched to see if characters become available
    for reading (more precisely, to see if a read will not block"

    Maybe it needs changing?

    Chris
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