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select with blocking and non-blocking socket

select 作用在 blocking 和 non-blocking socket 上的效果是一样. blocking 和 non-blocking socket 的区别主要体现在 recv, send, accept, connect 等这些函数上. 比如对于阻塞型的套接字, recv 只在接收到至少一个字节的时候才返回.

那么是不是用 select 的时候就无所谓使用哪一种套接字呢? Linux select man page 上有这么一段话:

Under Linux, select() may report a socket file descriptor as “ready for reading”, while nevertheless a subsequent read blocks. This could for example happen when data has arrived but upon examination has wrong checksum and is discarded. There may be other circumstances in which a file descriptor is spuriously reported as ready. Thus it may be safer to use O_NONBLOCK on sockets that should not block.

所以说, 在使用 select 的时候还是尽量使用 non-blocking socket 吧!