Charles 'Buck' Krasic wrote:
 >>In summary, a short count is every bit as reliable as EAGAIN to know
 >>that it is safe to wait on epoll_getevents.
 >
> Whoops.  I just realized a flaw in my own argument.  
> 
> With read, a short count might precede EOF.  Indeed, in that case,
> calling epoll_getevents would cause the connection to get stuck.

Maybe epoll should be extended with a specific EOF event.
Then short reads would be fine.
- Dan

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