Re: serious bug in Event's poll implementation

[email protected] (( Marc) (A.) (Lehmann )) Tue, 29 Jan 2002 06:03:21 +0100

Newsgroups	perl.loop
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On Mon, Jan 28, 2002 at 06:43:59PM -0500, Allen Smith <[email protected]> wrote:
> > If an filehandle returns POLLHUP or POLLERR Event goes into an
> > endless CPU-eating poll-loop.
> 
> Ouch! Yes, the current code would do this... this needs to be fixed,
> definitely.

It's not as if this hasn't been reported (with patch) at least three times
with nothing happening... :( Event has been unusable on many systems since
quite some time now.

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