X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM,SARE_SUB_ENC_UTF8,SPF_HELO_PASS,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com From: Robert F Subject: Madness with the 'select' function, sigalrm, and stdout. =?utf-8?b?KENZR1dJTl9OVC02LjEtV09XNjQp?= Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2012 22:16:19 +0000 (UTC) Lines: 30 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Loom/3.14 (http://gmane.org/) X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com This could be a cygwin bug, but I'm not 100% sure. It may even be a weird interaction with the windows console. I have a single threaded app that loops, polls network activity with a 'select' function and interrupts the flow of the loop when a SIGALRM signal is ran, the handler of which sets a variable that the loop responds to. While this app more-or-less ran fine in its native linux environment, when trying to run it at home in cygwin a problem occurs. Basically, between about 2-100 seconds of starting the process (on average), the alarm signal never runs as scheduled and never runs again, except for one more time when I hit CTRL+C (which I know by inserting debugging output into the signal handler). The funny thing is the app happily continues looping and calling the 'select' function, it just never gets interrupted by an alarm signal. The select function handles cases of EINTR where it was interrupted by an alarm, btw (sockets are nonblocking and timeout is 1 second). Now here's the REALLY weird bit. IF I insert a printf (with newline terminated string) after the select function, _the problem never occurs_. If there's no newline, the printed strings are buffered without being shown, until either a newline arrives or I hit CTRL-C. Doesn't work if I put it before the select function, only after. I haven't included any io streams into the fd_sets passed to the select function, in case you were wondering. They are zeroed and then only receive network connections. This has me stumped. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple