Re: [evolution-patches] fix for "Error: Success" with imap

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

Well is that a bogus zero-read?  Was there more data but for some strange reason we read 0?  What about all the select returns leading up to it?

This stuff really should be in a bug report with the traces attached :-/

On Thu, 2004-10-14 at 20:50 -0400, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
> someone on IRC posted a subsection of an strace that I took a look at.
>
> whatever IMAP server he was using, we sent STATUS <mailbox> (...)\r\n,
> got a successful write, then tried to read and got:
>
> read (36, "", 1024) == 0
> fcntl64...
> close (36) == 0
>
> Jeff
>
> On Thu, 2004-10-14 at 20:35, Not Zed wrote:
> > Hmm, do you have some test data or something that demonstrates this?
> > 
> > I'm concerned that if we're getting 0 reads when we shouldn't be, that
> > something else is going on, and this is a very small bandaid on the
> > problem.
> > 
> > Is the problem easily repeatable?
> > 
> > This patch can probably go in for now with a TODO comment about why
> > it's there.
> > 
> > On Thu, 2004-10-14 at 13:29 -0400, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote: 
> > > Seems the problem happens when we get a 0-byte read from the socket.
> > > 
> > > the attached patch fixes the error (or, at least, one of the places
> > > where error:success can happen)
> > > 
> > > Jeff
> > > 
> >

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