Matt, have you seen this thread? Jeremy, are you saying this a bug in the sendfile library on hackage, or something underlying?
thomas. 2010/2/9 Jeremy Shaw <jer...@n-heptane.com>: > On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 9:22 AM, Bardur Arantsson <s...@scientician.net> > wrote: >> >> True, it is perhaps technically not a bug, but it is certainly a >> misfeature since there is no easy way (at least AFAICT) to discover that >> something bad has happened for the file descriptor and act accordingly. >> AFAICT any solution would have to be based on a separate thread which either >> 1) "checks" the FD periodically somehow, or 2) simply lets the thread doing >> the threadWaitWrite time out after a set period of inactivity. Neither is >> very optimal. >> >> Either way, I'd certainly expect the sendfile library to work around this >> somehow such that this situation doesn't occur. I'm just having a hard time >> thinking up a good solution :). > > Well, it is certainly a bug in sendfile that needs to be fixed. I'm not sure > how to fix it either. If we can simplify the test case, we can ask Simon > Marlow.. > - jeremy > _______________________________________________ > Haskell-Cafe mailing list > Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe > > _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
