man select
BUGS
Under Linux, select() may report a socket file descriptor as "ready for reading", while nevertheless a subsequent
read blocks. This could for example happen when data has arrived but upon examination has wrong checksum and is
discarded. There may be other circumstances in which a file descriptor is spuriously reported as ready. Thus it
may be safer to use O_NONBLOCK on sockets that should not block.
Effectively it means "select can fire just because of it wants so", so all applications should use nonblocking sockets and be ready to ignore spurious selections.
Howerer I see blocking file descriptors being placed to select
here and there.
This is library that makes select
and poll
additionally return ready status for file descriptors by random chance, simplifying finding out applications using blocking sockets and select/poll simultaneously.
make
LD_PRELOAD=`pwd`/libselectfuzz.so my_program