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Re: Select()


On Feb  2 18:55, Vinod Chowdappa wrote:
> On 2/2/06, Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com> wrote:
> > > in cygwin.din. Not sure what this file is and how is it used exactly?
> >
> > See the Makefile.  cygwin.din is converted to cygwin.def, a standard
> > export definition file for the linker.
> 
> Could you briefly explain the format of the .din file? What does SIGFE mean?

Basically same format as .def files.  For SIGFE see how-signals-work.txt
in the source dir.

> And cygwin_select is itself not exported?

No, what would that be good for?  The function has another name internally
so that it can be easily distinguished from the WinSock function select.
See net.cc for more examples.  That's the only reason for using another
name.


Corinna

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