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Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 22:52:30 +0200
From: Kurt Roeckx <Q@ping.be>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Chris Evans <chris@scary.beasts.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
        davem@redhat.com
Subject: Re: Kernel bug with UNIX sockets not detecting other end gone?
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On Fri, May 18, 2001 at 09:02:51PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> > What I'm seeing however in an other program is that select says I
> > can read from the socket, and that read returns 0, with errno set
> > to EGAIN.  I call select() again, with returns and says I can read
> 
> No no no. If the read does not return -1 it does not change errno. EOF isnt
> an error.

Of course, how stupid of me.


Kurt