[EMAIL PROTECTED] (David S. Miller) writes:
>Jeffrey Butler writes:
> > I've noticed that poll() calls on IPv4 sockets do
> > not behave the same under linux 2.4 vs. linux 2.2.14.
> > Linux 2.4 will return POLLHUP for a socket that is not
> > connected (and has never been connected) while Linux
> > 2.2 will not.
> > The following example program demonstrates the
> > problem when it's run under linux 2.4:
>True, this behavior was changed from 2.2.x. We now match the behavior
>of other svr4 systems, in particular Solaris. This new behavior in
>2.4.x will not change.
Hi,
but Jeffrey wrote:
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JB> Other operating systems (not that they are necessarily
JB> correct) also output the same as Linux 2.2.14. I
JB> tried this on FreeBSD 4.4.1, Solaris 5.7 (on a SPARC),
JB> and Windows 2000 with Cygwin 1.1.7.
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This is BSD, SysVR4 and an abomination all behaving like 2.2.x and not
2.4.x (which confuses the heck out of a poll()-using daemon
here... :-) )
I'd prefer not to have too many user space surprises in moving from
2.2 to 2.4.
Regards
Henning
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