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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
Subject: Re: kern/19871 select on named pipes always returns 'available for
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The following reply was made to PR kern/19871; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
Cc: <freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject: Re: kern/19871 select on named pipes always returns 'available for
 reading'
Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 15:38:14 +1000 (EST)

 On Tue, 16 Oct 2001, Garrett Wollman wrote:
 
 > <<On Tue, 16 Oct 2001 02:40:02 -0700 (PDT), Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> said:
 >
 > >  work.  It just says that select() returns if one of the read descriptors
 > >  is "ready to read".  It doesn't seem to define "ready to read", of course
 >
 > I thought that we had agreed that select would consider ``ready'' as
 > meaning ``a read (or write, as appropriate) system call on this file
 > descriptor would return without blocking, provided you win any races''.
 
 Only for small values of "we" :-).
 
 Bruce
 

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