From owner-freebsd-bugs Wed Oct 17 6: 0: 9 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@hub.freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C00337B405 for ; Wed, 17 Oct 2001 06:00:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.11.4/8.11.4) id f9HD03R86338; Wed, 17 Oct 2001 06:00:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gnats) Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 06:00:03 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200110171300.f9HD03R86338@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Cc: From: Thomas Quinot Subject: Re: kern/19871 select on named pipes always returns 'available for reading' Reply-To: Thomas Quinot Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org The following reply was made to PR kern/19871; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Thomas Quinot To: Garrett Wollman Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: kern/19871 select on named pipes always returns 'available for reading' Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 14:50:36 +0200 Le 2001-10-16, Garrett Wollman écrivait : > 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''. The question is, is it desirable/feasible to change our definition of 'ready' to 'a read ... would return /some data (in an amount >0)/ without blocking ...' ? Thomas. -- Thomas Quinot ** Département Informatique & Réseaux ** quinot@inf.enst.fr ENST // 46 rue Barrault // 75634 PARIS CEDEX 13 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message