Nonblocking I/O and POLL_BUG

[Matthias Urlichs]

Hi,

Per Hedeland:
> >  (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.)
> 
I've never seen that one...

> Ouch, that's a *much* worse bug! Could affect INN I guess, as
> CHANwrite() seems to attempt more than one write after select in some
> (weird:-) cases.
> 
Then again, running INN on a pre-2.2 Linux system is not really a good idea 
anyway.

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