Re: Does Linux select() violate POSIX?

[Chris Friesen]

On 06/18/2011 11:06 AM, Nemo Publius wrote:
> Suppose I  have a file descriptor referencing a TCP/IP socket in blocking mode.
>
> Suppose select() reports that the descriptor is ready for reading.
>
> If I then call recv() on that descriptor, can it _ever_ block?

There was a long discussion about this back in 2004.

http://lkml.org/lkml/2004/10/6/117

Based on that discussion and the need to deal with legacy apps, 
udp_poll() has special-case code to handle blocking sockets--it 
validates the checksum before declaring the socket readable.  This costs 
some performance, so for non-blocking sockets the checksum validation is 
deferred until later when it will be hot in the cache due to the copy to 
userspace.

Other protocols may not handle this and so the warning is still valid in 
general.

Chris


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