[ic] EINTR on select

Joachim Leidinger interchange-users@interchange.redhat.com
Fri Dec 7 10:33:01 2001


Javier Martin wrote:
> 
> Hello list,
> 
> This is for Mike, I think: I have written a profile in which some socket IO
> is done through LWP. I do an HTTP query to a server, which responds in
> approx 1 or 2 seconds. My problem is: during this lapse, I often (not in a
> deterministic way) obtain the error EINTR in the select call (deep into the
> LWP guts) that waits for data on the socket connected to the server. The
> EINTR error probably means that 'select' has been interrupted by some
> signal.
> 
> My question is: Is it possible that the interchange process receive any
> asynchronous signal that could break ongoing system calls such as select?
> 
> Please, this has been turning me completely crazy for almost a week.

Did you see any message about 'select' from the error.log of IC? If yes,
can you post that part of message?

Joachim

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