(Non)-Blocking sockets using fcntl()

[Thomas Rauscher]

On Tue, 23 Dec 2003, Thomas Rauscher wrote:

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thomas Rauscher
> Sent: Monday, December 15, 2003 5:02 PM
> To: 'rtems-users at rtems.com'
> Subject: (Non)-Blocking sockets using fcntl()
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I've found a problem with putting sockets into blocking/non-blocking
> mode using fcntl() in rtems-4.5.0 and probably also rtems-4.6.0pre5.
> ioctl() is working fine, so the problem is not in the IP stack.
>
> The problem occurs in real life with the GoAhead webserver on
> high-latency connections as its non-blocking write socket remains
> non-blocking and a web page can be truncated when websDone()
> is called.
>
> There have been several threads on this topic, so I hope this
> is really a new issue.
>
> Maybe somebody can confirm this and/or comment my proposed fixes.
>

I've written a testcase demonstrating the fcntl() behavior.

Best regards,
Thomas Rauscher

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