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From: "Udo A. Steinberg" <reality@delusion.de>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
Cc: kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: PROBLEM: select() says closed socket readable
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 17:29:55 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3B812CF3.DFE7247D@delusion.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200108181627.UAA19351@ms2.inr.ac.ru> <E15Yq81-0006o8-00@shell2.shore.net> <20010820.080334.68038516.davem@redhat.com>

"David S. Miller" wrote:
> 
>    No, a socket that's never been connected isn't readable, hence
>    select() shouldn't be returning a value of 1 on it.
> 
> You may read without blocking, select() returns 1.
> 
> Please, fix your app.

Hello,

While we're at it - are there any plans to fix the other
select issue which was already discussed in December 2000? The
original thread can be found at:

http://uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/net/0012.2/0008.html

I realize that the behaviour doesn't violate the standards, but
as Alexey said - it's still somewhat wrong.

-Udo.

  reply	other threads:[~2001-08-20 15:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-08-18  3:28 PROBLEM: select() says closed socket readable Jay Rogers
2001-08-18 16:27 ` kuznet
2001-08-18 22:52   ` Ton Hospel
2001-08-20 14:34   ` Jay Rogers
2001-08-20 15:03     ` David S. Miller
2001-08-20 15:29       ` Udo A. Steinberg [this message]
2001-08-21  9:02       ` Mike Jagdis
2001-08-21 17:35         ` David Schwartz
2001-08-21 18:38           ` Alan Cox
2001-08-21 19:01             ` David Schwartz
2001-08-22  9:26           ` Mike Jagdis
2001-08-22 21:40             ` David Schwartz
2001-08-23 10:30               ` Mike Jagdis
2001-08-23 10:56               ` [PATCH] " Mike Jagdis
2001-08-20 19:48     ` PROBLEM: " David Schwartz

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