Re: [as-devel] read() on a socket in *BSD

Ethan (allanon@crystaltokyo.com)
Sat, 19 Jun 1999 22:13:58 -0700 (PDT) 

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On Fri, 18 Jun 1999, Frederick Bruckman wrote:

> On Wed, 16 Jun 1999, Ethan wrote:
> 
> > I'm attaching the new patch.  It's intended to be applied over the old 
> > 1.7.111-04-allanon-socket.patch.
> 
> I had time to look over the whole thing today. The only problem I see,
> is that if you do get errno=EAGAIN on a read() (or EINTR), that means
> that you actually read zero bytes, so it's wrong to add -1 to "done".

Thanks!  That was exactly the problem - it works much better for me now.  
I'm attaching my patch B which does much the same thing your patch does.  
Mine also changes the code to set non-blocking mode exactly once, when 
the socket is first opened.

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Ethan Fischer
allanon@crystaltokyo.com
http://members.xoom.com/allanon1

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