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+[[!tag open_issue_glibc]]
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+There are a lot of reports about this issue, but no thorough analysis.
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+IRC, unknown channel, unknown date.
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+ <paakku> This is related to ELinks... I've looked at the select() implementation for the Hurd in glibc and it seems that giving it a short timeout could cause it not to report that file descriptors are ready.
+ <paakku> It sends a request to the Mach port of each file descriptor and then waits for responses from the servers.
+ <paakku> Even if the file descriptors have data for reading or are ready for writing, the server processes might not respond immediately.
+ <paakku> So if I want ELinks to check which file descriptors are ready, how long should the timeout be in order to ensure that all servers can respond in time?
+ <paakku> Or do I just imagine this problem?