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

[Mark Mielke]

On Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 08:39:43PM -0700, David S. Miller wrote:
> On Thu, 7 Oct 2004 22:51:48 -0400
> Mark Mielke <mark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Your position, I believe has been that the use of select() on a blocking
> > file descriptor is invalid.
> Incorrect.
> My position is that expecting a blocking file descriptor not to
> block is invalid.

Extrapolated, this would be - use of select() on a blocking file descriptor
is invalid.

Otherwise, what would be the point of using select() only to accidentally
block a small percentage of the time that one couldn't predict?

Cheers,
mark

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