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Re: RFC, fix for bogus timeouts in select()
On Fri, 2004-10-22 at 11:17, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> > - non-blocking reads here...
> > - select() returns a timeout
> > - read() returns data, even though select() immediately preceding it
> > returned a timeout.
>
> Since you are running on a pre-emptive multitasking OS, this is
> expected behaviour.
>
> To know if there is a real bug here, we need to know when the data was
> put into the socket relative to when select exited. Turning on tracing
> will probably show this.
So what I should look for is(i.e. a bug exists if):
1. select() sleeps
2. data arrives
3. thread on which select() executes is starved until after timeout
expires
4. select() wakes up after timeout has expired *and* data has arrived
5. select() returns a timeout instead of "data arrived"
I claim the above happens, but I have not provided evidence.
>
> Andrew
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