Cancel read on socket

[Torsten Landschoff]

Leon Pollak wrote:
> Is there any way to cancel currently waiting read operation on UDP socket?
> I do not want to close it (need to use it immediately) or use select() 
> (consumes a lot of CPU time).
>   
Why does select() consume a lot of CPU time!? Wouldn't it be obvious to
fix select() then? Or poll for that matter...

AFAIK, the standard approach is to use a non-blocking socket, try a read
and only use select() if no data was available.

Sorry for not knowing a better/tested solution...

  Torsten

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