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SubjectRe: UDP recvmsg blocks after select(), 2.6 bug?
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From: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Sent: Wednesday, October 06, 2004 16:21
> On Wed, 6 Oct 2004 11:15:13 -0400 (EDT)
> "Richard B. Johnson" <root@chaos.analogic.com> wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 6 Oct 2004, David S. Miller wrote:
> >
> > > On Wed, 6 Oct 2004 16:52:27 +0200 (CEST)
> > > Joris van Rantwijk <joris@eljakim.nl> wrote:
> > >
> > >> 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.
> >
> > Huh? Then why would anybody use select()? It can't return a
> > 'guess" or it's broken. When select() or poll() claims that
> > there are data available, there damn well better be data available
> > or software becomes a crap-game.
>
> So if select returns true, and another one of your threads
> reads all the data from the file descriptor, what would you
> like the behavior to be for the current thread when it calls
> read?
>
> So like I said, there is no such guarentee.

Perhaps you should have elaborated then, because this is obviously
not what was meant.

--ms


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