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Date: Sun, 5 Nov 2000 10:48:52 +0100
From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: David Feuer <David_Feuer@brown.edu>
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Subject: Re: Select
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On Sun, Nov 05, 2000 at 01:46:19AM -0500, David Feuer wrote:
> In the discussion on "select bug", some people noted that select does not 
> wake up a process until the buffer is half full (or all full, or 
> whatever).  Does this mean that if a small amount is written to the 
> device/pipe the process may never be woken?  Or is there a time limit that 
> wakes up the process after a certain amount of time if there are _any_ 
> bytes in the pipe/dev?

This only applies to POLLOUT. Yes, if an send buffer stays 90%
full forever you may be never woken up.

In case of a TCP socket you would be at worst waken up after considerable
time with a ETIMEDOUT. 

Pipes do not signal writable until the pipe is empty. 


-Andi
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