select() without timeout causing infinite hang

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#333 select() without timeout causing infinite hang

Milestone: version-1.8.16

Status: closed-fixed

Owner: Zdenek Styblik

Labels: None

Priority: 5

Updated: 2015-10-09

Created: 2014-07-09

Creator: Daniel Svensson

Private: No

Using select() without a timeout will cause select() to hang indefinitely if there's no data. Theoretically there should be data and it shouldn't hang, but reality doesn't care much about theory, a timeout and a proper error message would be nice.

https://sourceforge.net/p/ipmitool/source/ci/master/tree/src/plugins/open/open.c#l324

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Zdenek Styblik - 2014-12-21

status: open --> open-accepted

assigned_to: Zdenek Styblik

Group: version-1.8.15 --> version-1.8.16
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Zdenek Styblik - 2015-10-09

status: open-accepted --> closed-fixed
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Zdenek Styblik - 2015-10-09

Fix has been committed into git. Thanks.

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