libev epoll and EPOLLRDHUP

[Marc Lehmann]

On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 12:00:38PM +0530, "Chaliha, Sayan" <sayan.chaliha at in.verizon.com> wrote:
> I also have another question, something I've been trying to figure out without any luck: Is there any possibility that libev's backend_fd gets corrupted and epoll_wait returns either EINVAL or EBADF? I just upgraded to 4.15 from 4.10. I was seeing the problem in 4.10. Obviously my application code doesn't access backend_fd directly...

Sure, unix has no protection against one part of a process corrupting
other parts of a process - anything can close or change the backend fd.

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