Re: UDP recvmsg blocks after select(), 2.6 bug?

David S. Miller
2004-10-06T23:40:49Z

On Wed, 6 Oct 2004 22:06:08 +0200
Olivier Galibert <galibert@pobox.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 06, 2004 at 12:43:27PM -0700, Hua Zhong wrote:
> > How hard is it to treat the next read to the fd as NON_BLOCKING, even if
> > it's not set?
>
> Programs don't expect EAGAIN from blocking sockets.

That's right, which is why we block instead.