Re: [Chromium-dev] Chromium hangs on Windows XP -> PATCH

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Samuel Thibault wrote:
> Michael D=FCrig, le Thu 23 Nov 2006 14:33:47 +0100, a =E9crit :
>> Someone recommended to use non-blocking sockets instead of blocking
>> sockets because 'select is typically not used with blocking
>> sockets'.
>=20
> Mmm, they have a strange notion of select() then.  Select is
> particularly useful with blocking sockets precisely because it permits
> to know whether recv() will block or not...  If that's not the case,
> it's a bug in the select() implementation.

Yes thats what I thought. But it seemed easier for the moment to hack=20
around the bug instead of getting MS to fix this.

Michael