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Re: select() hangs sometimes, for TCP connections
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2004 09:32:40 -0500
- Subject: Re: select() hangs sometimes, for TCP connections
- References: <20040213122720.17765.qmail@web60301.mail.yahoo.com>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Fri, Feb 13, 2004 at 04:27:19AM -0800, Patrick Samson wrote:
>Problem: sometimes select() doesn't return.
>
>Context: I run a DB replication scenario, with cron, everything 5 mn.
>There is no change in the DB, so the scenario is always the same. Most
>of the time, it works. But eventually, after some time (may be some
>minutes or hours), a process A keeps waiting forever in select() for a
>response on a TCP socket. With gdb I can see that the other end B
>returned in its ReadCommand() function, meaning it has send its
>response and waits for a new command, so this side should be OK.
I suspect that this is basically a winsock socket reuse bug that has
been around for a long time.
Corinna, does this ring a bell?
cgf
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