RE: Linux poll() <sigh> again

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> > This may be a bug somewhere.. however, once again if you don't
> > want read
> > to block under any circumstances, set your sockets to non-blocking!

> But that's another hack. AFAICS why ppl (mostly) use select/poll wud be
> to know if their send/recv/read/write would go thru rather than getting
> blocked!

	It's not another hack. If you don't want to block, you must tell the kernel
that. As for select/poll telling you that a write won't block, it has never
done that. The select/poll functions, just like almost every other system
call, do *not* provide future guarantees.

	DS


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