RE: poll() emulation in git

[Joachim Schmitz]

> From: Paolo Bonzini [mailto:address@hidden On Behalf Of Paolo Bonzini
> Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2012 5:15 PM
> To: Joachim Schmitz
> Cc: address@hidden; 'Junio C Hamano'; 'Erik Faye-Lund'; address@hidden; 
> address@hidden
> Subject: Re: poll() emulation in git
> 
> Il 06/09/2012 16:44, Joachim Schmitz ha scritto:
> >> > Yes, it's an usleep(autocorrect * 100000) basically (poll takes
> >> > milliseconds, not micro).
> > OK, it is _supposed_ to do this usleep(), but is does not, as poll() 
> > returns early with EFAULT in this case:
> >   /* EFAULT is not necessary to implement, but let's do it in the
> >      simplest case. */
> >   if (!pfd)
> >     {
> >       errno = EFAULT;
> >       return -1;
> >     }
> >
> > poll() is doing this before calling select(), so won't sleep.
> > So there's a bug in {gnulib|git}'s poll(), right?
> >
> 
> Yes, it should be "if (!pfd && nfd)".

Are you going to fix this in gnulib?

Bye, Jojo