Re: select says I can read, but recvfrom hangs

["D. Hugh Redelmeier" <hugh@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 20 Jun 2001, Ben Greear wrote:

| From: Ben Greear <greearb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

| Make your socket O_NONBLOCKing, and you don't have to worry about that
| kind of thing (just be sure you handle all the error cases, ie read
| no data) correctly.
|
| I always just consider select() a hint, not the Truth :)

Of course that is a way to work arround a bug (if that is what I'm
seeing), but it should not be necessary.  The specs for select say
nothing about it being just a hint.

Hugh Redelmeier
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