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From: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
To: "Nick Palmer" <nick@sluggardy.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: select implementation not POSIX compliant?
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 22:49:10 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <411A8646.1030205@colorfullife.com> (raw)

Nick wrote:

>Furthermore, a call to close and then select in the same thread
>blocks while the other thread is still in select, which has a very large
>surprise factor, since the code would work were it not for the other
>select.
>
>  
>
Could you post the test case for this behavior: I assume your test app 
is buggy: a select call that is executed after close returned must 
return EBADF, everything else would be a bug.

Regarding your main point: The return result from select/poll is 
undefined in Linux if you close a descriptor while another thread polls 
or selects it.
This is consistent with the behavior of other Unices - for example HP UX 
kills the process if you replace a descriptor that is being polled with 
dup2.

--
    Manfred

             reply	other threads:[~2004-08-11 20:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-08-11 20:49 Manfred Spraul [this message]
2004-08-13 20:18 ` select implementation not POSIX compliant? Nick Palmer
2004-08-13 22:05   ` Alan Cox
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-08-11 17:00 Nick Palmer
2004-08-11 19:40 ` Alex Riesen
2004-08-11 20:33   ` khandelw
2004-08-11 21:23     ` Alex Riesen
2004-08-13 20:13     ` Nick Palmer
2004-08-11 21:57   ` Steven Dake
2004-08-13 20:12   ` Nick Palmer

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