From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Kern Sibbald <kern@sibbald.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: PROBLEM: blocking read on socket repeatedly returns EAGAIN
Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2005 15:03:11 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1124200991.17555.33.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200508161519.39719.kern@sibbald.com>
On Maw, 2005-08-16 at 15:19 +0200, Kern Sibbald wrote:
> have written, nor does it write() anything. When my read() is issued, I
> expect it to block, but it immediately returns with -1 and errno set to
> EAGAIN. If the read() is re-issued, a CPU intensive loop results as long as
> the other end does not read() the data written to the socket. This is a
> multi-threaded program, but the other threads are all blocked on something.
You are describing behaviour as expected with nonblocking set. That
suggests to me that something or someone set or inherited the nonblock
flag on that socket. Is the strange behaviour specific to the latest
kernel ?
Alan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-08-16 13:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-08-16 13:19 PROBLEM: blocking read on socket repeatedly returns EAGAIN Kern Sibbald
2005-08-16 14:03 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2005-08-16 14:12 ` Kern Sibbald
2005-08-16 14:52 ` Alan Cox
2005-08-16 14:38 ` Kern Sibbald
2005-08-16 18:39 ` David S. Miller
2005-08-16 21:06 ` Kern Sibbald
2005-08-16 18:37 ` David S. Miller
2005-08-16 18:36 ` David S. Miller
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