socket blocking problem

select() is staying blocked after close() is called, surely this isn't normal? The program connects to my local webserver and waits for input, about 1 second after waiting, threadfunction calls close(), select never returns. Well that's what I get when the program is run from a shell, if it's run in gdb, select returns -1 and errno is 9 (bad file descriptor).

Is this normal behaviour? ...I can't see how it is. Can somebody please compile my code and report the behaviour. I'm feeling my system is screwed up

Code:

#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/socket.h>
#include <sys/select.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <netinet/in.h>
#include <pthread.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <errno.h>

void * threadfunction(void *arg)
{
	printf("threadfunction started\n");
	
	int fd=*(int *)arg;
	
	sleep(1);
	
	printf("closing socket\n");
	close(fd);
}

int main()
{
	int fd=socket(AF_INET,SOCK_STREAM,0);
	
	struct sockaddr_in addr;
	addr.sin_family=AF_INET;
	addr.sin_addr.s_addr=inet_addr("127.0.0.1");
	addr.sin_port=htons(80);
	
	connect(fd,(struct sockaddr *)&addr,sizeof(struct sockaddr_in));
	
	fd_set readfds;
	FD_ZERO(&readfds);
	FD_SET(fd,&readfds);
	
	pthread_t thread;
	pthread_create(&thread,NULL,threadfunction,&fd);
	
	printf("calling select()\n");
	int ret=select(fd+1,&readfds,NULL,NULL,NULL);
	
	printf("select returned %i\n",ret);
	
	printf("errno is %i\n",errno);
	
	return 0;
}

gcc test.c -o test -lpthread

If it needs to be known, i'm running:
Slackware 10.2
Linux kernel 2.4.31
libpthread-0.10.so
libc-2.3.5.so

Thanx

Originally Posted by killerbyte

select() is staying blocked after close() is called, surely this isn't normal?

Code:

	int ret=select(fd+1,&readfds,NULL,NULL,NULL);

The last argument is a pointer to a "struct timeval" whose members (tv_sec, tv_usec) tell the kernel how long to wait. If the last argument is NULL, then, indeed, it will block.

You could try something like the following, (for a 2 second timeout):

Code:

    struct timeval timeout = {2, 0};
.
.
.
    printf("calling select()\n");
    ret = select(fd , &readfds, NULL, NULL, &timeout);
    printf("select returned %i\n", ret);

D

Ok, select times out, returns 0, how can I tell if the socket has been closed? If the socket isn't closed, i need to keep reading. Yes, the code i've provided doesn't entirely replicate the original code I was testing, just to show select doesn't return when it should.

Anyway, i've solved the problem now. Select unblocks when I use shutdown() instead of close().

Thanx