Re: Why is src/test/modules/committs/t/002_standby.pl flaky?

On Mon, Jan 10, 2022 at 12:00 AM Alexander Lakhin <exclusion@gmail.com> wrote:
> Going down through the call chain, I see that at the end of it
> WaitForMultipleObjects() hangs while waiting for the primary connection
> socket event. So it looks like the socket, that is closed by the
> primary, can get into a state unsuitable for WaitForMultipleObjects().

I wonder if FD_CLOSE is edge-triggered, and it's already told us once.
I think that's what these Python Twisted guys are saying:


https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7598936/how-can-a-disconnected-tcp-socket-be-reliably-detected-using-msgwaitformultipleo

> I tried to check the socket state with the WSAPoll() function and
> discovered that it returns POLLHUP for the "problematic" socket.

Good discovery.  I guess if the above theory is right, there's a
memory somewhere that makes this level-triggered as expected by users
of poll().