[openssl-users] Graceful shutdown of TLS connection for blocking sockets

[Jakob Bohm]

On 09/10/2017 16:43, Thomas J. Hruska wrote:
> On 10/9/2017 7:29 AM, Jakob Bohm wrote:
>> I suggest you find a good authoritative source for your claim
>> that select() should not be used with blocking sockets.
>
> http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/select.2.html
>
> Section BUGS:
>
> "Under Linux, select() may report a socket file descriptor as "ready 
> for reading", while nevertheless a subsequent read blocks. This could 
> for example happen when data has arrived but upon examination has 
> wrong checksum and is discarded.  There may be other circumstances in 
> which a file descriptor is spuriously reported as ready.  Thus it may 
> be safer to use O_NONBLOCK on sockets that should not block."
>
>
> Authoritative enough for you?
>
That must be a recent change then.  But certainly that is a bug
in Linux select, not in programs relying on the (long time)
documented correct behavior.

Enjoy

Jakob
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