[comp.unix.wizards] select lockup

Tom Depke Motorola Schaumburg, Il. (Trunked Terminals) (11/09/89)

	I have noticed when using select for our application, that if you
pass select a file descriptor for a device which has lost it's carrier, 
your process will sit inside of select chewing up 99% of the time. The one
exception to this seems to be that if you set the CLOCAL option for the 
port the problem is avoided alltogether.
	I could not find any good information on CLOCAL or select as 
pertains to devices. Is there a problem with select or was this just not
documented well enough? 	
	The machine I discovered this on was the Motorola Deta VME. It 
showed up on both the 147 and 332xt cards.

	Any information on select or CLOCAL would be greatly appreciated.
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tomd@tt8.UUCP (Tom Depke) (11/10/89)

In article <206@tt8.UUCP>, Tom Depke Motorola Schaumburg, Il. (Trunked Terminals) writes:
> 
> 	I have noticed when using select for our application, that if you
> pass select a file descriptor for a device which has lost it's carrier, 
> your process will sit inside of select chewing up 99% of the time. The one
> exception to this seems to be that if you set the CLOCAL option for the 
> port the problem is avoided alltogether.
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