Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 06:00:03 -0700 (PDT) From: Thomas Quinot <quinot@inf.enst.fr> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: kern/19871 select on named pipes always returns 'available for reading' Message-ID: <200110171300.f9HD03R86338@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR kern/19871; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Thomas Quinot <quinot@inf.enst.fr>
To: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
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.
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