Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S269315AbUJFP6f (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Oct 2004 11:58:35 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S269316AbUJFP6f (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Oct 2004 11:58:35 -0400 Received: from zcars04e.nortelnetworks.com ([47.129.242.56]:55292 "EHLO zcars04e.nortelnetworks.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S269315AbUJFP6e (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Oct 2004 11:58:34 -0400 Message-ID: <416415E5.8040709@nortelnetworks.com> Date: Wed, 06 Oct 2004 09:57:25 -0600 X-Sybari-Space: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 From: Chris Friesen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "David S. Miller" CC: root@chaos.analogic.com, joris@eljakim.nl, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: UDP recvmsg blocks after select(), 2.6 bug? References: <20041006080104.76f862e6.davem@davemloft.net> <20041006082145.7b765385.davem@davemloft.net> <20041006084242.3443b2de.davem@davemloft.net> In-Reply-To: <20041006084242.3443b2de.davem@davemloft.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 631 Lines: 17 David S. Miller wrote: > "Richard B. Johnson" wrote: >>Somebody else responded that a bad checksum could do the same >>thing --not. Select must return correct information. > Guess what, our UDP implementation does exactly that > and has done so for years. It's perfectly fine. We may want change the man page for select() so that this is made clear. Chris - 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/