Ultrix 4.1 connect() failure on FNDELAY socket behaves incorrectly

Dan Bernstein brnstnd at kramden.acf.nyu.edu
Tue Jun 18 11:55:50 AEST 1991


In article <26530:Jun1218:54:1991 at kramden.acf.nyu.edu> brnstnd at kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein) writes:
> Under Ultrix 4.1, a straight connect() fails almost immediately, but the
> select() for writing hangs for 75 seconds. That's an awfully long time
> to figure out that a net doesn't exist.

Perhaps I wasn't clear enough the first time.

Is DEC going to fix this bug before the end of the millenium? Has it, by
any chance, already been fixed in 4.2? (I doubt it, considering DEC's
track record. No offense intended---few companies do any better.)

---Dan



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