Re: serious bug in Event's poll implementation

On Feb 1,  2:09am, Joshua N Pritikin wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 29, 2002 at 06:03:21AM +0100,  Marc A. Lehmann  wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> Please try Event 0.85 (uploaded just now).

Thank you very much; tests so far on IRIX look good.

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Congradulations and best wishes!

	Yours,

	-Allen

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