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diff --git a/open_issues/select.mdwn b/open_issues/select.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 00000000..ab6af90b --- /dev/null +++ b/open_issues/select.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,23 @@ +[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]] + +[[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable +id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this +document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or +any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant +Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license +is included in the section entitled [[GNU Free Documentation +License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] + +[[!tag open_issue_glibc]] + +There are a lot of reports about this issue, but no thorough analysis. + +--- + +IRC, unknown channel, unknown date. + + <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? |