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Re: simultaneous socket write/close causes panic?


On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 12:16:30AM -0800, NavEcos wrote:
> Correct me if I'm wrong (because I might be), but isn't this
> inherently a race condition in the first place?  These seems like an
> application programmer error to me, not an error of eCos.

It should not cause a panic. Either the write should succeed, or it
should return an err code saying the file is closed. These operations
should be atomic with respect to each other.

       Andrew

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