Mikael Vidstedt wrote:
> No, I'm not using aio. I'm using the kernel supported asynchronous IO that
> sends signals through the net/socket.c:sock_wake_async() function in the
> kernel. No additional libraries or threads are used.
> ...
> There is no small test program to demonstrate the problem, I'm afraid. The
> application I'm writing is quite a bit too large. :(
>
> What the application does is to have about 200 concurrent connections
> from remote clients that are reading and writing data through sockets.
> When the remote end is shutting down, signals appear to get lost, because
> when I poll the remaining sockets, they have data left to be read, but no
> signal has been delivered...
So your program runs in the kernel? Is it a loadable module?
Can you try a different kernel, say Red Hat 6.2 or even 2.4.0-test3?
Who knows, maybe the Red Hat 6.0 kernel you're using has a bug that's
since been fixed...
- Dan
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