The sets of poll(2) events that we check in order to return SELECT_R
and SELECT_W overlap: to be precise, they have POLLERR in common. So
if an fd signals POLLERR, then pollwrap_get_fd_rwx will respond by
saying that it has both SELECT_R and SELECT_W available on it - even
if the caller had only asked for one of those.
In other words, you can get a spurious SELECT_W notification on an fd
that you never asked for SELECT_W on in the first place. This
definitely isn't what I'd meant that API to do.
In particular, if a socket in the middle of an asynchronous connect()
signals POLLERR, then Unix Plink will call select_result for it with
SELECT_R and then SELECT_W respectively. The former will notice that
it's got an error condition and call plug_closing - and _then_ the
latter will decide that it's writable and set s->connected! The plan
was to only select it for write until it was connected, but this bug
in pollwrap was defeating that plan.
Now pollwrap_get_fd_rwx should only ever return a set of rwx flags
that's a subset of the one that the client asked for via
pollwrap_add_fd_rwx.
Baruch Siach reports that in a uClibc-ng build environment, POLLRDNORM
and friends are only defined by poll.h if you #define _XOPEN_SOURCE
before including it. So now we do that, in case it helps - and we also
cope with those #defines still being absent, in case on some other
system even that doesn't help.
I've always thought poll was more hassle to set up, because if you
want to reuse part of your pollfds list between calls then you have to
index every fd by its position in the list as well as the fd number
itself, which gives you twice as many indices to keep track of than if
the fd is always its own key.
But the problem is that select is fundamentally limited to the range
of fds that can fit in an fd_set, which is not the range of fds that
can _exist_, so I've had a change of heart and now have to go with
poll.
For the moment, I've surrounded it with a 'pollwrapper' structure that
lets me treat it more or less like select, containing a tree234 that
maps each fd to its location in the list, and also translating between
the simple select r/w/x classification and the richer poll flags.
That's let me do the migration with minimal disruption to the call
sites.
In future perhaps I can start using poll more directly, and/or using
the richer flag system (though the latter might be fiddly because of
sometimes being constrained to use the glib event loop). But this will
do for now.
