Open sockets non-overlapped?

Christopher Faylor cgf-no-personal-reply-please@cygwin.com
Fri May 19 15:30:00 GMT 2006


On Fri, May 19, 2006 at 11:19:45AM -0400, Lev Bishop wrote:
>Here's a trivial little patch for your consideration (while I wait for
>my copyright assignment to go through).
>
>It makes it so that cygwin sockets can be passed usefully to windows
>processes. Eg:
>$ cmd /c dir > /dev/tcp/localhost/5001

AFAIK, /dev/tcp/localhost is neither a linux nor a cygwin construction.

In any event, it will be a while before this patch can be reviewed since
Corinna is in the hospital for a couple of weeks and won't be able to look
at cygwin stuff.

cgf



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