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

[Hua Zhong]

> I can't believe this thread has lasted this long.

The reason is that you haven't just admitted very clearly that 
"Linux select isn't Posix compliant and it was a design decision 
not to do so for performance reasons". I think this kind of 
authorative answer would shut up many people. :-)

> I think people had cotton in their ears when I mentioned 
> that every single 2.4.x and 2.6.x existing system out there 
> has this behavior, therefore even if we changed the behavior 
> some way today people still need to handle this to work on 
> all existing Linux systems.

Unfortunately this isn't the best argument..

I think most people just hope Linux would follow the standard.
The old Linux threads weren't posix-compliant either for years,
and people still fixed (most of?) it in 2.6. By your argument
that would not have happened.

Hua

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