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From: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
To: Paul Jakma <paul@clubi.ie>
Cc: David Schwartz <davids@webmaster.com>,
	hasso@estpak.ee, Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: raw sockets and blocking
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 07:53:43 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040219075343.GA4113@mail.shareable.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0402190622010.25392@fogarty.jakma.org>

Paul Jakma wrote:
> > 	It is, however, perfectly legal to say an operation can
> > complete without blocking (say, through 'select' or 'poll') and
> > later return EWOULDBLOCK. (So long as some operation could have
> > completed, not necessarily the one you tried.)
> 
> Right. But that's fine, we can deal with that, if the error is
> posted.
> 
> Problem is no error is posted when we sendmsg[1], yet the socket
> thereafter stays write-blocked, with (sane) way for us to recover.  

I hate to check the obvious, but did you try setting the O_NONBLOCK
flag for the socket?  Did you try setting the MSG_DONTWAIT flag for
the sendmsg operation?

-- Jamie

  reply	other threads:[~2004-02-19  7:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-02-18  1:33 raw sockets and blocking Paul Jakma
2004-02-18  5:37 ` David Schwartz
2004-02-18  6:42   ` Hasso Tepper
2004-02-18 11:42     ` David Schwartz
2004-02-19  6:28       ` Paul Jakma
2004-02-19  7:53         ` Jamie Lokier [this message]
2004-02-19  8:34           ` Paul Jakma
2004-02-19 12:40             ` Hasso Tepper
2004-02-19 12:54               ` Paul Jakma
2004-03-22  7:14                 ` Hasso Tepper
2004-02-18  8:43   ` Hasso Tepper
2004-02-19  6:20   ` Paul Jakma

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