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Re: simultaneous socket write/close causes panic?


On Tue, 2002-10-29 at 07:30, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> 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.
> 

I agree, which is why I said that it would be nice to see if it
still happens with the new stack.  Spending any time/effort debugging
the old stack is wasteful (IMO).

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