Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!mcdchg!tt8!tomd
From: tomd@tt8.UUCP (Tom Depke)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: select lockup
Summary: Correction of where to send response
Keywords: fd carrier loss causes select lock
Message-ID: <209@tt8.UUCP>
Date: 10 Nov 89 15:38:19 GMT
References: <206@tt8.UUCP>
Organization: Motorola Trunking Terminals, Schaumburg, IL
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In article <206@tt8.UUCP>, Tom Depke Motorola Schaumburg, Il. (Trunked Terminals) writes:
> 
> 	I have noticed when using select for our application, that if you
> pass select a file descriptor for a device which has lost it's carrier, 
> your process will sit inside of select chewing up 99% of the time. The one
> exception to this seems to be that if you set the CLOCAL option for the 
> port the problem is avoided alltogether.
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