Date: 13 Jun 1999 18:00:48 +0200 From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no> To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no> Cc: Brian Feldman <green@unixhelp.org>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: select(2) breakage Message-ID: <xzp674st7in.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> In-Reply-To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav's message of "13 Jun 1999 17:46:13 %2B0200" References: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9906131100140.26380-100000@janus.syracuse.net> <xzp7lp8t86y.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
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Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no> writes:
> This still doesn't explain select()'s failure to time out
Found it! If you change:
printf("no select() action");
to:
fprintf(stderr, "no select() action\n");
you'll see that select() does time out.
The moral of this story is to always use an unbuffered stream for
logging and debugging messages.
DES
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Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@flood.ping.uio.no
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