[Haskell-cafe] Re: sendfile leaking descriptors on Linux?

[Jeremy Shaw]

On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 9:22 AM, Bardur Arantsson <spam at scientician.net>wrote:

True, it is perhaps technically not a bug, but it is certainly a misfeature
> since there is no easy way (at least AFAICT) to discover that something bad
> has happened for the file descriptor and act accordingly. AFAICT any
> solution would have to be based on a separate thread which either 1)
> "checks" the FD periodically somehow, or 2) simply lets the thread doing the
> threadWaitWrite time out after a set period of inactivity. Neither is very
> optimal.
>
> Either way, I'd certainly expect the sendfile library to work around this
> somehow such that this situation doesn't occur. I'm just having a hard time
> thinking up a good solution :).
>
>
Well, it is certainly a bug in sendfile that needs to be fixed. I'm not sure
how to fix it either. If we can simplify the test case, we can ask Simon
Marlow..

- jeremy
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