Re: poll(2) emulation doesn't work well on a file descriptor

[Daiki Ueno]

>>>>> In <address@hidden> 
>>>>>   Paolo Bonzini <address@hidden> wrote:
> Bruno Haible wrote:
> > Daiki Ueno wrote:
> >
> >> When I tried a tiny program which uses gnulib's poll(2) emulation on
> >> MacOS X 10.4, I found a bug.  gnulib's poll(2) uses recv(2) with
> >> MSG_PEEK to support POLLHUP.  However, recv(2) is only applicable to a
> >> socket, not to a file descriptor.
> >>
> It's much worse than that.  On some other kinds of descriptor, recv
> works, but ignores MSG_PEEK!

> I have a similar patch using FIONREAD instead of recv for Mac OS only,
> but the bottom line is that you cannot rely on POLLHUP for Mac OS :-(
> I'll polish the patch and send it soon.

A month passed.  Any news?

Regards,
-- 
Daiki Ueno