fhandler_socket::dup

Pierre A. Humblet Pierre.Humblet@ieee.org
Tue Mar 11 14:40:00 GMT 2003


Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>
> I'm seriously concidering to remove all the fixup_before/fixup_after
> from fhandler_socket::dup() and just call fhandler_base::dup() on
> NT systems.
 
Corinna,

Isn't that just what you do now?
Just out of curiosity, why hasn't this always been done? I blindly thought
it couldn't but I have just looked up MSDN and there is no mention of any 
restriction of DuplicateHandle with sockets, on any platform. 
Googling didn't enlighten me either.

Pierre



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