Re: should accept be protected with fport_wait_for_input?

[Marco Maggi]

Ciao,

"dskr" wrote:
>Should this protection be extended to 'accept' in the socket
>code to prevent the entire runtime from blocking if a thread
>blocks on accept?

I am not an expert in networking, but it seems to me that to
avoid blocking you need to make the server socket non-blocking.
I dunno what is you platform, but if you are using the
GNU C Library you can read the "accept" info node:

     The `accept' function waits if there are no connections
pending,
     unless the socket SOCKET has nonblocking mode set.
(You can use
     `select' to wait for a pending connection, with a
nonblocking
     socket.)  *Note File Status Flags::, for information about
     nonblocking mode.

HTH
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Marco Maggi

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