Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] /dev/epoll update ... | Date | Wed, 19 Sep 2001 19:26:25 +0100 (BST) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> Stevens [UNPV1, in chapter on nonblocking accept] suggests that readiness > notifications from the OS should only be considered hints, and that user > programs should behave properly even if the OS feeds it false readiness > events.
For accept this is specifically and definitely true. A pending connection can go away before you accept it. What happens then is rather OS specific - BSD unix gives you a socket that has died - which can be handy and avoids the problem but others don't all do the same - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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