Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: UDP recvmsg blocks after select(), 2.6 bug? | From | Alan Cox <> | Date | Wed, 06 Oct 2004 17:41:16 +0100 |
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On Mer, 2004-10-06 at 15:52, Joris van Rantwijk 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.
Select indicates there may be data. That is all - it might also be an error, it might turn out to be wrong.
You should always combine select with nonblocking I/O
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