Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) <mtk.manpages@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Reinvestigating the problem, I see that I got my description of the > behavior slightly wrong, although the fundamental problem remains. > Here's my improved formulation: [..] > Since the timeout is only checked after the arrival of each datagram, > we can have scenarios like the following: > > 0. Assume a timeout of 10 (T) seconds, that vlen is 5, and the call > is made at time X > > 1. First datagram arrives at time X+2. > > 2. Second datagram arrives at time X+4 secs > > 3. Third datagram arrives at time X+6 secs > > 4. No more datagrams arrive. > > In this case, the call blocks forever. It hardly seems that this could > be intended behavior. The problem, of course is that the timeout is > checked only after receipt of a datagram. Isn't that what MSG_WAITFORONE is supposed to solve? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
