select() hangs sometimes, for TCP connections

[Christopher Faylor]

On Fri, Feb 13, 2004 at 04:27:19AM -0800, Patrick Samson wrote:
>Problem: sometimes select() doesn't return.
>
>Context: I run a DB replication scenario, with cron, everything 5 mn.
>There is no change in the DB, so the scenario is always the same.  Most
>of the time, it works.  But eventually, after some time (may be some
>minutes or hours), a process A keeps waiting forever in select() for a
>response on a TCP socket.  With gdb I can see that the other end B
>returned in its ReadCommand() function, meaning it has send its
>response and waits for a new command, so this side should be OK.

I suspect that this is basically a winsock socket reuse bug that has
been around for a long time.

Corinna, does this ring a bell?

cgf

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