Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2002 11:06:32 -0800 From: jayanth <jayanth@yahoo-inc.com> To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: file descriptor flags and socket flags out of sync ? Message-ID: <20021120110632.A62938@yahoo-inc.com>
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Some developers here have encountered a scenario where the file
descriptor flags and the socket flags seem to be out of sync.
if an application does:
listen(listenfd)
while (!done) {
select()
<-------------------- new connection arrives before fcntl()
fcntl(listenfd,O_NONBLOCK)
newfd = accept(listenfd,...)
fnctl(listenfd,0) /* make socket blocking */
if (newfd & O_NONBLOCK)
/* fd is O_NONBLOCK, but socket is blocking */
}
At this point socket is blocking because the state
of the new socket = state of the listen socket only during the connection
setup phase, not during the accept phase. However, the filedescriptor
flags are copied during the accept phase. So at this point
the filedescriptor flags are nonblocking but the socket is actually blocking.
Agreed, that the solution is to have the application set NONBLOCK before
the listen() call, but it seems incorrect to have the newfd's flags and socket
state be out of sync.
Copying the state of the socket during the accept might lead to a slightly
different behaviour, but will solve this particular problem.
thanks,
jayanth
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