Re: [gpsd-dev] EBADF in main select (Roy Barkas's bug)

[Roy Barkas]

Thanks Eric, I'll give it a try as soon as time-demands permit and let you know (probably tomorrow)

Roy

On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 3:56 PM, Eric S. Raymond <address@hidden> wrote:

A little research indicated that fcntl(fd, F_GETFL, 0) is about the
most lightweight to validate a file descriptor.  Accordingly, I have
added some recovery code to gpsd_await_input().

Roy, please test the head version.  You should no longer get "bad file
descriptor" and termination.

Ideally there's some cleanup actions that should be added, but that
would require a library verson bump of libgpsd - not the user-facing
API so probably OK, but I'd prefer to hold that until after 3.11.
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