Re: system/3808: select() does not timeout correctly

[itojun@iijlab.net]

The following reply was made to PR system/3808; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: itojun@iijlab.net
To: rogerw@pccorp.com
Cc: gnats@openbsd.org
Subject: Re: system/3808: select() does not timeout correctly 
Date: Fri, 04 Jun 2004 12:28:38 +0900

 >>Synopsis:       select() does not timeout correctly
 >>Description:
 >	I am using the postfix MTA (compiled form source and it is timeing out
 >        too quickly when a reverse DNS lookup fails. It timesout in approx 13
 >        seconds instead of the specified 300 seconds. I posted this on the 
 >        postfix list and the author stated "Postfix implements read/write 
 >        timeouts with select(). You may want to capture a system call trace to
 >        see why select() returns in less than 300 seconds."  
 
 	does select() return with error (return value < 0), timeout (0) or
 	something else?
 
 itojun