accept() fails in service, succeeds in standalone app

[Robert Collins]

If you look in the archives on the cygwin-apps mail list, Corinna Vinschen
sent a mail out with code to set a socket FD nonblocking. The fcntrl call
with non-blocking doesn't currently set the FD to non-blocking.

Rob

----- Original Message -----
From: "Matt Minnis" <mminnis@prefres.com>
To: "Markus Hoenicka" <Markus.Hoenicka@uth.tmc.edu>;
<cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com>
Sent: Tuesday, August 08, 2000 5:54 AM
Subject: Re: accept() fails in service, succeeds in standalone app


> I ran into this same issue.
>
> The accept() call waits for input of some sort.
>
> I have a program that opens a Telnet server session and then gets stuck at
> the accept() call.
> If I telnet to it, it will then continue.
>
> Kinda anoying.
>
> I am on Win2000, running Cygwin 1.13
>
> Thanks,
>
> Matt
>
>
> At 07:40 PM 8/7/2000 +0000, Markus Hoenicka wrote:
> >Hi all,
> >
> >I came across this weird problem in my first attempt whatsoever to run
> >some homegrown code as a WinNT4 service. The app is a simple server
> >that handles client requests with the bind/listen/select/accept
> >functions. This runs all fine and handles client requests nicely as
> >long as I run this as a standalone application. I can install this
> >application as a service using invkr153.zip ( http://www.idetix.com )
> >and it starts without problems. But when I try to connect to the server
> >(now running as a service), accept fails with errno 14 (bad address).
> >
> >Has anyone else seen this? Is this a Cygwin issue or a NT issue? Are
> >there specific requirements for Cygwin apps to run successfully as a
> >service?
> >
> >I'm running B20.1 on WinNT4 SP 5.
> >
> >Any help is greatly appreciated.
> >
> >Markus
> >
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