Select() failing with EAGAIN?

[Fernando Carrijo]

Adam Jackson <ajax at nwnk.net> wrote:

> On Tue, 2010-08-03 at 17:28 -0300, Fernando Carrijo wrote:
> > The Open Group documentation for Select does not mention it failing with EAGAIN.
> > 
> >   http://opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007908775/xsh/select.html
> > 
> > Even so, we check for this error after Select is called in WaitForSomething.
> > 
> > Anybody knows why?
> 
> commit 85dd8efac1bc0715f03c99d261b1c5d0980623e1
> Author: Daniel Stone <daniel at fooishbar.org>
> Date:   Wed Dec 5 19:36:59 2007 +0000
> 
>     WaitForSomething: Ignore EAGAIN
>     
>     If select ever returns EAGAIN, don't bother complaining.

Oh, how embarrassing when I forget to use git-blame before asking questions.

> It does look like this has been seen in the wild for Linux systems at
> least, where EAGAIN is 11:
> 
> http://www.google.com/search?q=%22WaitForSomething():+select:+errno%3D11%22

Yep, you're right.

Thanks.