John Gardiner Myers wrote:
>> while (read() == EAGAIN)
>> wait(POLLIN);
>>
> Assuming registration of interest is inside wait(), this has a race. If
> the file becomes readable between the time that read() returns and the
> time that wait() can register interest, the connection will hang.
Shouldn't the should be rearmed inside read() when it returns EAGAIN?
That's how I do it in my wrapper library these days.
No reason to have a race.
- Dan
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