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To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no>
Cc: Brian Feldman <green@unixhelp.org>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: select(2) breakage
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From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no>
Date: 13 Jun 1999 18:00:48 +0200
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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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