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Date:      Tue, 16 Oct 2001 10:10:02 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
To:        freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: kern/19871 select on named pipes always returns 'available for reading'
Message-ID:  <200110161710.f9GHA2K96407@freefall.freebsd.org>

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The following reply was made to PR kern/19871; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: kern/19871 select on named pipes always returns 'available for
 reading'
Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2001 13:01:12 -0400 (EDT)

 <<On Tue, 16 Oct 2001 02:40:02 -0700 (PDT), Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> said:
 
 >  work.  It just says that select() returns if one of the read descriptors
 >  is "ready to read".  It doesn't seem to define "ready to read", of course
 
 I thought that we had agreed that select would consider ``ready'' as
 meaning ``a read (or write, as appropriate) system call on this file
 descriptor would return without blocking, provided you win any races''.
 
 -GAWollman
 

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