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From: Rainer Weikusat <rweikusat@mobileactivedefense•com>
To: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail•com>
Cc: David Laight <David.Laight@ACULAB•COM>,
	David Miller <davem@davemloft•net>,
	netdev <netdev@vger•kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: unix: non blocking recvmsg() should not return -EINTR
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2014 21:04:52 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ha6k7jt7.fsf@sable.mobileactivedefense.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87y4zw7ngi.fsf@sable.mobileactivedefense.com> (Rainer Weikusat's message of "Wed, 26 Mar 2014 19:46:05 +0000")

Rainer Weikusat <rw@sable> writes:

[...]

> The underlying problem would seem to be that a O_NONBLOCK call might
> actually block forever in case a blocking receiver sits on the lock and
> no data is ever received.

... except that this probably cannot happen because O_NONBLOCK is a file
status flag and not a file descriptor flag.

NB: I've neither tested nor checked this.

  reply	other threads:[~2014-03-26 21:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-03-26  1:42 [PATCH] net: unix: non blocking recvmsg() should not return -EINTR Eric Dumazet
2014-03-26 13:17 ` Rainer Weikusat
2014-03-26 13:57   ` Rainer Weikusat
2014-03-26 14:09   ` Eric Dumazet
2014-03-26 14:25     ` Rainer Weikusat
2014-03-26 15:00 ` David Laight
2014-03-26 15:13   ` Rainer Weikusat
2014-03-26 15:25     ` Eric Dumazet
2014-03-26 15:33       ` Eric Dumazet
2014-03-26 19:46       ` Rainer Weikusat
2014-03-26 21:04         ` Rainer Weikusat [this message]
2014-03-27  9:36           ` David Laight
2014-03-27 12:40             ` Rainer Weikusat
2014-03-27 12:49               ` Jamal Hadi Salim
2014-03-27 13:02                 ` Rainer Weikusat
2014-03-27 12:53               ` David Laight
2014-03-27 13:29                 ` Rainer Weikusat
2014-03-26 21:05         ` David Miller
2014-03-26 21:21           ` Rainer Weikusat
2014-03-26 21:44             ` Eric Dumazet
2014-03-26 22:06               ` Rainer Weikusat
2014-03-26 22:35                 ` Eric Dumazet
2014-03-26 22:51                   ` Rainer Weikusat
2014-03-26 22:58                     ` Eric Dumazet
2014-03-28 20:35             ` Rainer Weikusat

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