On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 03:20:58PM -0700, Matt Dillon wrote:
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> :On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 10:33:50AM -0700, Matt Dillon wrote:
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> :> :
> :> :Thanks, I will try setting errno, but I don't think it is signals.
> :> :I have been running truss on the process. The relevant part is
> :> :
> :> :gettimeofday(0xbfbffa54,0x0) = 0 (0x0)
> :> :select(0x50,0x93f8c90,0x0,0x0,0xbfbffa74) = 3 (0x3)
> :> :read(0x16,0xa2da000,0x8000) ERR#60 'Operation timed out'
> :> :
> :> :In fact there are no signals in the whole truss output
> :> :
> :> :Graham.
> :>
> :> What type of descriptor is the read being performed on? A TCP
> :> connection or, say, a reading a file over NFS?
> :
> :It is a TCP/IP connection.
> :
> :Graham.
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> You can get this if the TCP connection times out, either through a
> keepalive timeout or the protocol hits the maximum number of transmit
> retries. I'd have to delve into the cvs logs to see when it was added,
> but it seems reasonable. You should treat it simply as an EIO or
> something like that.
Keepalives are a good point.
I know of OS/2 Systems that can't handle them and behave the way you
describe.
What system is on the other side?
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