Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S269240AbUJFPBp (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Oct 2004 11:01:45 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S269282AbUJFPBp (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Oct 2004 11:01:45 -0400 Received: from adsl-63-197-226-105.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net ([63.197.226.105]:60050 "EHLO cheetah.davemloft.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S269240AbUJFPBn (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Oct 2004 11:01:43 -0400 Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2004 08:01:04 -0700 From: "David S. Miller" To: Joris van Rantwijk Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: UDP recvmsg blocks after select(), 2.6 bug? Message-Id: <20041006080104.76f862e6.davem@davemloft.net> In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.12 (GTK+ 1.2.10; sparc-unknown-linux-gnu) X-Face: "_;p5u5aPsO,_Vsx"^v-pEq09'CU4&Dc1$fQExov$62l60cgCc%FnIwD=.UF^a>?5'9Kn[;433QFVV9M..2eN.@4ZWPGbdi<=?[:T>y?SD(R*-3It"Vj:)"dP Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 567 Lines: 13 On Wed, 6 Oct 2004 16:52:27 +0200 (CEST) Joris van Rantwijk wrote: > My understanding of POSIX is limited, but it seems to me that a read call > must never block after select just said that it's ok to read from the > descriptor. So any such behaviour would be a kernel bug. There is no such guarentee. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/