Re: UDP recvmsg blocks after select(), 2.6 bug?

[Paul Jakma]

On Thu, 7 Oct 2004, Martijn Sipkema wrote:

> Would you care to provide any real answers or are you just telling
> me to shut up because whatever Linux does is good, and not appear
> unreasonable by adding a ;) ..?

No, I'm saying it's simple good practice to set O_NONBLOCK on sockets 
if one expects not to block - any other expectation is not robust, 
never mind what POSIX says about select().

regards,
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