Subj : Re: Threading and Timeouts
To   : comp.programming.threads
From : Giancarlo Niccolai
Date : Thu Jul 21 2005 02:02 am

David Schwartz wrote:

> 
> "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

What? A pipe and a socket are different, and so they have different FD. I
don't get your point.

Giancarlo.

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