Re: Select 2.1.65

Dean Gaudet (dgaudet-list-linux-kernel@arctic.org)
Tue, 18 Nov 1997 00:36:10 -0800 (PST)

The full story is that libc-5.3, 5.4, and glibc all relied on the old
linux behaviour. In particular visit res_send.c in the source, search for
EINTR, and imagine what happens if a repeating alarm() goes off faster
than the select() timeout. It goes into an infinite loop. rpc.mountd has
a race condition that can tickle this behaviour.

Dean

On Tue, 18 Nov 1997, Jauder Ho wrote:

>
> it broke rpc.mountd
>
> --Jauder
>
> On Tue, 18 Nov 1997, Chris Wedgwood wrote:
>
> > I see select(2) has been restored to its `original' status of updating the
> > timeout....
> >
> > Out of curiosity, why was this done?
> >
> >
> >
> > -Chris
> >
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