From: Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu>
To: cygwin-developers@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Question about non-blocking Windows pipes
Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2021 09:33:11 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <35a1dae0-3360-aaaf-d6ba-5d5a8e449477@cornell.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YGxawgspQygCK8PC@calimero.vinschen.de>
On 4/6/2021 8:57 AM, Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin-developers wrote:
> Hi Ken,
>
> On Apr 1 10:39, Ken Brown via Cygwin-developers wrote:
>> Hi Corinna,
>>
>> There are several places in fhandler_socket_unix.cc where you make a
>> distinction between the blocking and nonblocking cases with code like this:
>>
>> cygwait (evt ?: get_handle (),...)
>
> I only see this in fhandler_socket_unix::listen_pipe, actually.
You're right. I was remembering something in sendmsg, but that's a very
different situation.
>> Here evt is an event handle in the blocking case and is NULL in the
>> nonblocking case. See, for example, fhandler_socket_unix::listen_pipe.
>>
>> What's the reasoning behind this? Why not just always create an event or
>> always use the handle?
>
> In the nonblocking case, the status code returned from NtFsControlFile
> is either a useful status code like STATUS_SUCCESS or an error code,
> or it is STATUS_PENDING. STATUS_PENDING only means the call is still
> not finished. To get a useful result, you still need a useful status
> code. You get that by waiting for the handle. Note that waiting for
> the handle doesn't mean to wait for the connecting client. Rather, it's
> signalled as soon as the async NtFsControlFile call finished.
Ah, that's what I was missing.
> If the
> status code is STATUS_PIPE_LISTENING then, you know that no client tries
> to connect, so you can return EAGAIN.
>
> The completion event object OTOH, is only signalled if a client actually
> connected, so that's blocking mode.
>
> Two problems with using an event object in nonblocking mode:
>
> - The event object is referenced in the call. If NtFsControlFile returns
> STATUS_PENDING and you leave the function, you have to use a globally
> available event object, because this address is used as event object
> until completion of the NtFsControlFile call (and a client connected).
>
> - You also have a pending NtFsControlFile until a client connects.
> This is contrary to what you want in a non-blocking call: You only
> want to know *if* a client connects, not wait for it either way.
>
> Does that help? I'm not claiming there isn't another way to handle this
> scenario, that's just what I came up with.
Yes, that clears it up completely. Thanks.
Ken
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2021-04-01 14:39 Ken Brown
2021-04-06 12:57 ` Corinna Vinschen
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