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Re: PATCH Re: udp weirdness

To: Eric Lemoine <Eric.Lemoine@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: PATCH Re: udp weirdness
From: Chris Friesen <cfriesen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 02 Oct 2002 10:09:24 -0400
Cc: kuznet@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, hadi@xxxxxxxxxx, netdev@xxxxxxxxxxx
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Eric Lemoine wrote:

Would you mind explaining a bit more why apps will lockup if we block
after select() succeeded. Or anyone?

I suspect he means a temporary lockup.

There are many apps that use blocking sockets and rely on select() to tell them when they may write out to the socket without blocking.

If the write then blocks, the whole app is blocked. Some of them probably wouldn't like this.

Was that it Alexey? Or is there something more that I missed?

Chris



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