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changeset 10921:bafc6771d75a
Document a select() bug on Solaris 2.6.
author | Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org> |
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date | Sat, 20 Dec 2008 20:44:55 +0100 |
parents | 76fc4f6a3dea |
children | 91831148c181 |
files | ChangeLog doc/posix-functions/select.texi tests/test-select-in.sh |
diffstat | 3 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,10 @@ +2008-12-20 Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org> + + * doc/posix-functions/select.texi: Mention Solaris 2.6 bug with + /dev/null. + * tests/test-select-in.sh: Likewise. + Reported by Tom G. Christensen <tgc@jupiterrise.com>. + 2008-12-20 Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org> Don't pretend that Cygwin has a ja_JP.EUC-JP locale.
--- a/doc/posix-functions/select.texi +++ b/doc/posix-functions/select.texi @@ -28,6 +28,10 @@ On BeOS, @code{select} can only be called on descriptors created by the @code{socket} function, not on regular file descriptors. @item +On Solaris 2.6 and older, @code{select} applied to a file descriptor opened +for reading and associated with @code{/dev/null} hangs, waiting for input, +when instead it should return immediately. +@item On Linux, when some file descriptor refers to a regular file, @code{select} may fail, setting @code{errno} to @code{EBADF}. @end itemize
--- a/tests/test-select-in.sh +++ b/tests/test-select-in.sh @@ -1,6 +1,9 @@ #!/bin/sh # Test select() on file descriptors opened for reading. +# This test is known to fail on Solaris 2.6 and older, due to its handling +# of /dev/null. + tmpfiles="" trap 'rm -fr $tmpfiles' 1 2 3 15 @@ -23,6 +26,7 @@ test `cat t-select-in.tmp` = "1" || exit 1 # Special files. +# This part of the test is known to fail on Solaris 2.6 and older. rm -f t-select-in.tmp ./test-select-fd${EXEEXT} r 0 t-select-in.tmp < /dev/null