linux-kernel - Re: SELECT() returns 1 But FIONREAD says (Input/output error)

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Date:	Fri, 01 Jun 2007 08:01:09 -0400
From:	Uncle George <netbeans@...works.com>
To:	davids@...master.com
CC:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: SELECT() returns 1 But FIONREAD says (Input/output error)

David Schwartz wrote:

>> In this case what, will reset the "something interesting has happened"
>> report from the SELECT call? Will it ever be reset in this case?
> 
> Nope. An errored connection is always ready for read/write -- there is
> nothing to wait for as far as the kernel is concerned. Your code keeps
> asking the kernel if something interesting has happened, the kernel keeps
> telling it yes, and it refuses to do anything about it.

Actually its somewhat of a misreading.
The first sentence of the man pages for select suggests that something 
interesting has happened inbetween select()'s.

Later on it states "more precisely, to see if a read will not block", 
which is still different from "if characters become available for reading".

The "precisely" fits my issue, and not the others.
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