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 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
