Date: Tue, 16 Feb 1999 14:19:53 -0800 (PST) From: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> To: Don Lewis <Don.Lewis@tsc.tdk.com> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, nsmart@kira.team400.ie Subject: Re: select() can set errno to ECHILD? Message-ID: <XFMail.990216141953.jdp@polstra.com> In-Reply-To: <199902162206.OAA14029@salsa.gv.tsc.tdk.com>
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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
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