[Bug 40852] select(2): document action of close()'ing a fd during a select()
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Date: 2012-08-17 06:30:36
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40852
--- Comment #2 from Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> 2012-08-17 06:30:36 ---I added some text under NOTES in select(2).
--- a/man2/select.2
+++ b/man2/select.2@@ -411,6 +411,22 @@ when .B _GNU_SOURCE is defined. Since glibc 2.2.2 the requirements are as shown in the SYNOPSIS. +.SS Multithreaded applications +If a file descriptor being monitored by +.BR select () +is closed in another thread, the result is unspecified. +On some UNIX systems, +.BR select () +unblocks and returns, with an indication that the file descriptor is ready +(a subsequent I/O operation will likely fail with an error, +unless another the file descriptor reopened between the time +.BR select () +returned and the I/O operations was performed). +On Linux (and some other systems), +closing the file descriptor in another thread has no effect on +.BR select (). +In summary, any application that relies on a particular behavior +in this scenario must be considered buggy. .SS "Linux Notes" The .BR pselect ()
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