Re: bug in select() in linux

["Lluís Batlle" <viriketo@gmail.com>]

Oh, of course you're right. I was inside too much layers to think of
the tcp protocol, and I did not pay attention to it.

Maybe something could be added to the manpage anyway.

The bad thing is that there's no way I can use a socket for writing
using select() if that connection has been half-closed by the other
end. Moo.

Thanks a lot for your time,
Lluís

2007/3/12, Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>:
> > I've tried a select() for write against a closed tcp socket (closed by
> > the other side), and the select call _blocks_.
>
> A TCP close from the remote node is single sided. It sends a FIN and we
> ACK the FIN, that means only that the remote node has completed *sending*.
>
> > Any write() call to that socket will _not block_, and will return with EPIPE.
>
> We don't know this until you try the write. At that point the other end
> if it has closed entirely will issue an RST and terminate the connection
> in full.
>
> I don't therefore believe that this is actually a bug.
>
> Alan
>