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Clients can livelock system #32

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palmskog opened this issue Dec 16, 2016 · 0 comments
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Clients can livelock system #32

palmskog opened this issue Dec 16, 2016 · 0 comments

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Due to how the current shim uses file descriptors and the select system call to multiplex between inputs and network communication, clients can prevent node communication from happening by constantly sending requests. This is possible because timeouts only occur when no reads on file descriptors are pending.
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