[4921] in testers
Re: possibly-relevant fix to an ORBit bug
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Thu Jun 28 18:06:30 2001
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To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
cc: lcs@MIT.EDU, testers@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 28 Jun 2001 17:57:35 EDT."
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Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2001 18:06:25 -0400
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
> (b) remove the switch to blocking mode optimization since we should
> only be in the business of debugging
Er, nevermind that part; your new algorithm matches the old algorithm
and is fine. I do plan to eliminate the F_SETFL error check, though;
setting non-blocking should never fail, and as it stands your check
would spew warnings as it spins, which isn't much better than spinning
silently.