On Wed, Dec 05, 2001, Archie Cobbs wrote:

> It appears that the intent of setting a file descriptor to non-blocking
> mode via pth_fdmode() is to do for the thread what normal non-blocking
> (without pth involved) does for a process.
> 
> Is this the intent? If so, that's great.. but then there are a few bugs
> in the implementation.

Yes, that is the intent.

> While pth_read() and pth_write() have been modified to properly handle
> the PTH_FDMODE_NONBLOCK case, this still needs to be done for other
> blocking syscalls, e.g. pth_connect() and pth_accept() to name two.
> They will block the thread even if the fdmode is PTH_FDMODE_NONBLOCK.

Hmmm... yes, that's correct. My fault, I totally forgot these syscalls.

> I'd really like to see this fixed, and would be willing to supply
> patches if that would help.

Sure, it certainly helps. Feel free to post a patch.

                                       Ralf S. Engelschall
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