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

[David S. Miller]

On Thu, 07 Oct 2004 16:39:06 -0600
Chris Friesen <cfriesen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> However, you chopped off what I consider the interesting part of my post.   I 
> propose that if we call select() on a blocking file descriptor, we verify the 
> checksum before saying that the socket is readable.  Then, at recvmsg() time, if 
> it hasn't been checked already we would check it (to allow for the case of 
> blocking socket without select()).

So people who improperly use select() with blocking sockets get punished
in a different way, with half the performance compared to today?
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