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From: brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: Ultrix 4.1 connect() failure on FNDELAY socket behaves incorrectly
Message-ID: <681.Jun1801.55.5091@kramden.acf.nyu.edu>
Date: 18 Jun 91 01:55:50 GMT
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In article <26530:Jun1218:54:1991@kramden.acf.nyu.edu> brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein) writes:
> Under Ultrix 4.1, a straight connect() fails almost immediately, but the
> select() for writing hangs for 75 seconds. That's an awfully long time
> to figure out that a net doesn't exist.

Perhaps I wasn't clear enough the first time.

Is DEC going to fix this bug before the end of the millenium? Has it, by
any chance, already been fixed in 4.2? (I doubt it, considering DEC's
track record. No offense intended---few companies do any better.)

---Dan