Charles 'Buck' Krasic wrote:
>>In summary, a short count is every bit as reliable as EAGAIN to know
>>that it is safe to wait on epoll_getevents.
>
> Whoops. I just realized a flaw in my own argument.
>
> With read, a short count might precede EOF. Indeed, in that case,
> calling epoll_getevents would cause the connection to get stuck.
Maybe epoll should be extended with a specific EOF event.
Then short reads would be fine.
- Dan
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