Subj : Re: Threading and Timeouts
To   : comp.programming.threads
From : David Schwartz
Date : Wed Jul 20 2005 04:38 pm


"Giancarlo Niccolai" <searchforme@ingoogle.com> wrote in message 
news:dbmimi$sun$1@newsread.albacom.net...

> Yes. It specifically cites pipe and FIFO writes as exceptions; for normal
> files and sockets (and for reads), the behavior is what I have described.
> So this does not invalidates what I am saying.

    So if a FIFO gets a 'write' hit for 'select', a subsequent 'write' on a 
non-blocking socket can block? What happened to the supposed guarantee that 
'select' was supposed to provide?

    DS

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