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On Fri, 2005-01-28 at 15:01, Diego Nehab wrote:

> I am telling you that I call select, it returns the socket as writable,
> I call send immediately after, and it returns EWOULDBLOCK. There is no
> other thread using the socket. There is no problem with the connection.
> Why do you insist this is not a bug?

"It is not specified
how long these guarantees can be assumed to be valid"

means the assurance your write to the socket
cannot be assumed to succeed at *any* finite point in time after
the select call is done. 

> How am I supposed to avoid busy wait in the presence of this bug?

Install Unix?

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