Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 7 Jun 2001 00:43:41 -0400 (EDT) | From | Alexander Viro <> | Subject | Re: PROBLEM: I/O system call never returns if file desc is closed in the |
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On 7 Jun 2001, Florian Weimer wrote:
> Matthias Urlichs <smurf@noris.de> writes: > > > Select is defined as to return, with the appropriate bit set, if/when > > a nonblocking read/write on the file descriptor won't block. You'd get > > EBADF in this case, therefore causing the select to return would be a > > Good Thing. > > How do you avoid race conditions if more than one thread is creating > file descriptors? I think you can only do that under very special > circumstances, and it definitely requires some synchronization.
The same way as you do it for many threads doing any allocations.
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