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Date:      Thu, 15 Aug 2002 18:20:04 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Lev Walkin <vlm@netli.com>
To:        freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: kern/36219: poll() behaves erratic on BPF file descriptors.
Message-ID:  <200208160120.g7G1K4t1061017@freefall.freebsd.org>

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The following reply was made to PR kern/36219; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Lev Walkin <vlm@netli.com>
To: Nate Lawson <nate@root.org>
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org, gad@freebsd.org,
	bde@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: kern/36219: poll() behaves erratic on BPF file descriptors.
Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2002 18:17:37 -0700

 Nate Lawson wrote:
 > I looked over the current state of bpf.c and it seems like this PR can be
 > closed.  Comments?
 > 
 > if (events & (POLLIN | POLLRDNORM)) {
 >     /*
 >      * An imitation of the FIONREAD ioctl code.
 >      * XXX not quite.  An exact imitation:
 >      *if (d->b_slen != 0 ||
 >      *    (d->bd_hbuf != NULL && d->bd_hlen != 0)
 >      */
 >     if (d->bd_hlen != 0 ||
 >         ((d->bd_immediate || d->bd_state == BPF_TIMED_OUT) &&
 >         d->bd_slen != 0))
 
 Don't we want a POLLIN event to occur when the BPF_TIMED_OUT
 state is reached and there is still no data?
 This seems to be a timeout on waiting data, which should
 be reported up.
 
 
 >             revents |= events & (POLLIN | POLLRDNORM);
 >     else {
 > 
 > -Nate
 > 
 
 
 
 -- 
 Lev Walkin
 vlm@netli.com
 

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