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Re: filedescriptors and sockets
On Tue, Dec 28, 1999 at 12:51:24PM +0100, stefan wrote:
>On Mon, 27 Dec 1999, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>Cygwin does not make a distinction between sockets and normal file
>>descriptors. It's should work just like UNIX.
>
>I compiled the program with the -mno-cygwin option. And there the
>select() statement return an error if there are "normal"
>filedescriptors (from a _pipe()) in the field. Why is this ?
In the above sentence "Cygwin" is meant to imply that you are actually
*using* Cygwin. You are not, of course, using Cygwin if you specify
the -mno-cygwin option.
Normal Windows (i.e., what you're accessing when you specify
-mno-cygwin) does not provide a select() that can use pipe "file
descriptors", AFAIK.
-Christopher Faylor
-Cygwin Engineering Manager
-Cygnus Solutions
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