[sr #107464] Secure Connections on AIX using non blocking socket

[Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos]

2010/8/26 Bjørn Christensen <bhc at insight.dk>:
> I have tried to remove the hack I have put into the _gnutls_read and added gnutls_transport_set_lowat() to zero.
> That does not solve the problem, recv still return -1 with no errno set and that still causes _gnutls_read to assert.
> I can not set in which context it would be ok to return -1 from recv and not set the errno.

A call might return -1 and no errno, but this should be treated as
fatal error and not as EINTR or EAGAIN. That's why we cannot add such
a hack to main code. You'd better keep the hack then and file a bug
report on AIX.

regards,
Nikos