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Date:      Mon, 1 Feb 1999 13:42:05 -0800 (PST)
From:      Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com>
To:        mladavac@metropolitan.at (Ladavac Marino)
Cc:        ks@osi.ru, tlambert@primenet.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: select and threads again
Message-ID:  <199902012142.NAA02960@bubba.whistle.com>
In-Reply-To: <97A8CA5BF490D211A94F0000F6C2E55D09752C@s-lmh-wi-900.corpnet.at> from Ladavac Marino at "Feb 1, 99 01:09:51 pm"

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Ladavac Marino writes:
> > There was no write selecting at all (I guess), but was exceptional
> > conditions
> > selecting. The socketpair() fails in the same manner. I will try
> > AF_INET socket
> > later, because it is needed to make much more changes in ILU code. 
> > 
> 	[ML]  Isn't an exception only generated for Out-Of-Band data?
> Can you have
> 	these messages in a pipe at all?  (sorry, no manpages nor
> sources here--

Exceptions on sockets only happen as a result of TCP OOB data, yes.
No other reason. I was surprised when I learned this, but it's true :-)

-Archie

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