From: Stefan Rompf <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2007 19:39:07 +0100
> I'd strongly suggest doing so. AFAIK, behaviour of connect() on nonblocking
> sockets is quite well defined in POSIX.
You are entitled to your opinion.
POSIX says nothing about the semantics of route resolution.
Non-blocking doesn't mean "cannot sleep no matter what".
> If this is changed for some IP sockets, event-driven applications
> will randomly and subtly break.
If this was such a clear cut case we'd have changed things
a long time ago, but it isn't so don't pretend this is the
case.
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