Nonblocking I/O and POLL_BUG

[Russ Allbery]

Dan Merillat <harik at chaos.ao.net> writes:

> Although, I've never seen this OS bug myself... what platforms is it
> known to occur on?  (select returning readable but read returning
> -EAGAIN)

I've not seen it anywhere other than on Solaris, but I've not looked for
it very hard either.  (I've seen a different bug on Linux with 2.0.x
kernels, namely a write to a socket that has been set nonblocking blocking
anyway.  Solution there was to put a call to select in front of it.)

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Russ Allbery (rra at stanford.edu)         <URL:http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>