select() take 100% CPU with cygwin1.5.5-1 in WinXP/Win2000

[zhouxin]

I set a timeout for recvfrom() by calling select() on a UDP socket:
socket()=>sendto()=>select()=>recvfrom().
It seems that it need not call bind() or connect() for UDP socket here.
This method is recommended by
"UNIX Network Programming Volum1 Networking APIs: Sockets and XTI(Second Edition)", W.Richard Stevens
 Chapter 13 section 2.
source code:
http://www.cs.odu.edu/~cs779/stevens2nd/lib/readable_timeo.c
http://www.cs.odu.edu/~cs779/stevens2nd/advio/dgclitimeo.c

>>     if((sockfd = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_DGRAM, 0)) < 0){
>>         fprintf(stderr, "cannot open socket for udp packet!\n");
>>         exit(1);
>>     }
>>
>>     while(1){
>>         struct timeval    tv;
>>         fd_set            fds;

>>         radius_send(sockfd, NULL, secret);
>>         FD_ZERO(&fds);
>>         FD_SET(sockfd, &fds);
>>
>>         tv.tv_sec  =  timeout;
>>         tv.tv_usec = 0;
>>         printf("select the socket_fd : d, thread_id is : d\n",
>>                 sockfd, tid);
>>         if((ret=select(sockfd + 1, &fds, NULL, NULL, &tv))==1)
>>				*rep = radius_recv(sockfd);
>>    ...
This test code is cut from a multi-thread radius(Authentication,Accounting protocol,UDP) client.
if radius thread count > 18,some thread's select() will take 100% CPU in cygwin envirionment,
but the same code work ok in solaris and linux envirionment.









>On Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 01:14:17PM +0800, zhouxin wrote:
>> Cygwin implementation of select() take 100 CPU under multi-thread environment sometimes.
>> [...]
>>     if((sockfd = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_DGRAM, 0)) < 0){
>>         fprintf(stderr, "cannot open socket for udp packet!\n");
>>         exit(1);
>>     }
>>
>>     while(1){
>>         struct timeval    tv;
>>         fd_set            fds;
>>
>>         FD_ZERO(&fds);
>>         FD_SET(sockfd, &fds);
>>
>>         tv.tv_sec  =  timeout;
>>         tv.tv_usec = 0;
>>         printf("select the socket_fd : d, thread_id is : d\n",
>>                 sockfd, tid);
>>         select(sockfd + 1, &fds, NULL, NULL, &tv);
>>     }
>
>That's not allowed.  What is the select call waiting for?  You
>didn't bind or connect it.
>
>Corinna
>
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