From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Feb 16 14:22:31 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from wall.polstra.com (rtrwan160.accessone.com [206.213.115.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 45DA71105E for ; Tue, 16 Feb 1999 14:20:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jdp@polstra.com) Received: from vashon.polstra.com (vashon.polstra.com [206.213.73.13]) by wall.polstra.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id OAA08156; Tue, 16 Feb 1999 14:19:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jdp@polstra.com) Received: (from jdp@localhost) by vashon.polstra.com (8.9.2/8.9.1) id OAA00967; Tue, 16 Feb 1999 14:19:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jdp@polstra.com) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <199902162206.OAA14029@salsa.gv.tsc.tdk.com> Date: Tue, 16 Feb 1999 14:19:53 -0800 (PST) Organization: Polstra & Co., Inc. From: John Polstra To: Don Lewis Subject: Re: select() can set errno to ECHILD? Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, nsmart@kira.team400.ie Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Don Lewis wrote: > The signal handler could be invoked and stomp errno after select() > returns and before the userland code looks at errno. This isn't > real likely to happen, but you'll probably get bitten by this sooner > or later. By Jove, you're right. Thanks! John --- John Polstra jdp@polstra.com John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA "Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public." -- H. L. Mencken To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message