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Message-Id: <200708191350.21776.vda.linux@googlemail.com>
Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2007 13:50:21 +0100
From: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@...glemail.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] allow send/recv(MSG_DONTWAIT) on non-sockets (was Re: O_NONBLOCK is broken)
On Tuesday 14 August 2007 13:33, Alan Cox wrote:
> > b) Make recv(fd, buf, size, flags) and send(fd, buf, size, flags);
> > work with non-socket fds too, for flags==0 or flags==MSG_DONTWAIT.
> > (it's ok to fail with "socket op on non-socket fd" for other values
> > of flags)
>
> I think that makes a lot of sense, and to be honest other MSG_ flags make
> useful sense and have meaningful semantics that might be helpful
> elsewhere if ever coded that way.
Yes, that's my feeling too.
> If you want to do this the first job is going to be to sort out the way
> non-block is propogated to device driver read/write handlers. At the
> moment they all check filp->f_flags
...which happens in ~250 files. I'd rather not touch that much
of code, if possible.
Attached patch detects send/recv(fd, buf, size, MSG_DONTWAIT) on
non-sockets and turns them into non-blocking write/read.
Since filp->f_flags appear to be read and modified without any locking,
I cannot modify it without potentially affecting other processes
accessing the same file through shared struct file.
Therefore I simply make a temporary copy of struct file, set
O_NONBLOCK in it and pass it to vfs_read/write.
Is this heresy? ;) I see only one spinlock in struct file:
#ifdef CONFIG_EPOLL
spinlock_t f_ep_lock;
#endif /* #ifdef CONFIG_EPOLL */
Do I need to take it?
Also attached is ndelaytest.c which can be used to test that
send(MSG_DONTWAIT) indeed is failing with EAGAIN if write would block
and that other processes never see O_NONBLOCK set.
Comments?
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vda
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