Re: [usocket-devel] accept on sbcl may return nil

On 6/16/07, Attila Lendvai attila.lendvai@gmail.com wrote:

hi,

looking at the code of accept in sbcl, it seems that it may return with nil in case of sockint::EAGAIN or sockint::EINTR.

what should usocket do in this case? loop until non-nil is returned or return nil?

I've given the issue quite a bit of thought and I think it would be single-thread-multiplexing application friendly to return NIL from usocket too.

the latter might be more useful when dealing with timeouts, but i'm no socket expert of any kind.

Time-outs as well as other signals and idle-processing. Thanks for the pointer, I'll need to verify usocket's behaviour in this respect.

bye,

Erik.