[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2010, 2011, 2012 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. # `elinks` 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? # dbus See [[dbus]]. # See Also See also [[select_bogus_fd]] and [[select_vs_signals]].