Re: Patch for a bug in server/select.c

[Alexandre Julliard]

Bang Jun-Young <bjy(a)mogua.org> writes:
> It has been observed that poll always returns POLLNVAL without waiting
> when fd is -1.

Then we cannot use the current code on NetBSD, otherwise we'll be
eating 100% CPU as soon as an fd becomes -1. You'll probably need to
do a poll() wrapper that removes the invalid fds before calling the
real poll. Or you could ask the NetBSD folks to fix their
implementation.

-- 
Alexandre Julliard
julliard(a)winehq.com

Patch for a bug in server/select.c

[Bang Jun-Young]

On Sun, May 20, 2001 at 10:32:58AM -0700, Alexandre Julliard wrote:
> Bang Jun-Young <bjy(a)mogua.org> writes:
> > It has been observed that poll always returns POLLNVAL without waiting
> > when fd is -1.
>
> Then we cannot use the current code on NetBSD, otherwise we'll be
> eating 100% CPU as soon as an fd becomes -1. You'll probably need to
> do a poll() wrapper that removes the invalid fds before calling the
> real poll. Or you could ask the NetBSD folks to fix their
> implementation.

I'll put it on my TODO list. :) Thanks for your comments.

Jun-Young

-- 
Bang Jun-Young <bjy(a)mogua.org>