Problem with socketpair , AF_UNIX and select call - can anybody through any light on this!

[Andy Green]

Somebody in the thread at some point said:

> The SOCK_DGRAM is because I have small packets flowing that I do not
> want fragmented but do not mind if they get lost, .... but then inside a
> machine that does not matter. However with SOCK_STREAM I get zero length
> messages but still ready to read continuously!!! See attached!

Why don't you try removing the O_NONBLOCK since you test with select...

  fcntl(fd[0], F_SETFL, fcntl(fd[0], F_GETFL, 0) | O_NONBLOCK);
  fcntl(fd[1], F_SETFL, fcntl(fd[1], F_GETFL, 0) | O_NONBLOCK);

-Andy