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

[Jeremy Shaw]

On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 2:04 PM, Bardur Arantsson <spam at scientician.net>wrote:

>
> I've tested this extensively during this weekend and not a single "leaked"
> FD so far.
>
> I think we can safely say that polling an FD for read readiness is
> sufficient to properly detect a disconnected client regardless of why/how
> the client disconnected.
>
> The only issue I can see with just dropping the above code directly into
> the sendfile library is that it may lead to busy-waiting on EAGAIN *if* the
> client is actually trying to send data to the server while it's receiving
> the file via sendfile(). If the client sends even a single byte and the
> server isn't reading it from the socket, then threadWaitRead will keep
> returning immediately since it's level-triggered rather than edge triggered.
>

Yeah. That could be trouble.


> Not sure what the best solution for this would be, API-wise... Maybe
> actually have sendfile read the data and supply it to a user-defined
> function which could react to the data in some way? (Could supply two
> standard functions: "disconnect immediately" and "accumulate all received
> data into a bytestring".)
>
>
I think this goes beyond just a sendfile issue -- anyone trying to write
non-blocking network code should run into this issue, right ? For now, maybe
we should patch sendfile with what we have. But I think we really need to
summarize our findings, see if we can generate a test case, and then see
what Simon Marlow and company have to say...

- jeremy
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