Re: Nsock new engines

[David Fifield <david () bamsoftware com>]

On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 08:35:19PM +0100, Rob Nicholls wrote:
> Interestingly, the NSE/UDP bug that David and I encountered on
> Windows the other week seems to have gone away when poll is used (it
> still hangs if the nsock engine is forced to select). This
> presumably explains why I was only able to reproduce this on Windows
> and not Linux. This should be less of an issue once Windows uses
> poll by default, but it would be nice for the bug(s) to be fixed as
> I presume it'll affect other systems that still use select.

That's interesting. I tried --nsock-engine=select on Linux, and I
couldn't reproduce the hang. So somehow it is a result of both Windows
and select.

David Fifield
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