Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 12 Mar 2007 17:03:02 +0000 | From | Alan Cox <> | Subject | Re: bug in select() in linux |
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On Mon, 12 Mar 2007 16:02:11 +0100 "Lluís Batlle" <viriketo@gmail.com> wrote:
> Oh, of course you're right. I was inside too much layers to think of > the tcp protocol, and I did not pay attention to it. > > Maybe something could be added to the manpage anyway. > > The bad thing is that there's no way I can use a socket for writing > using select() if that connection has been half-closed by the other > end. Moo.
You can because the only case it will block is when the transmit queue is partly or completely full which means that you will discover the connection has been reset when the transmit triggers a reset.
If you wait on the FD concerned for write or exception events all should work nicely. - 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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