Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2001 22:40:02 -0700 (PDT) From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: kern/19871 select on named pipes always returns 'available for reading' Message-ID: <200110170540.f9H5e2r96199@freefall.freebsd.org>
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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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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