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Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2002 00:06:17 +0000
From: Jamie Lokier <lk@tantalophile.demon.co.uk>
To: David Schwartz <davids@webmaster.com>
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Subject: Re: TCP memory pressure question
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David Schwartz wrote:
> 	So this would be a case where 'poll' or 'select' would return
> a write hit for a socket but 'write' would return -1 and set errno
> to EAGAIN.

Is this really true?  It would livelock several servers I've worked on...

-- Jamie
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