blocking connect()

[Robert Collins]

This is a known issue with cygwin at the moment. You can either "submit a
patch" (tm - cgf) or use ioctl as a workaround (search the cyugwin-apps
archives for example code).

Rob
----- Original Message -----
From: "stefan" <stefan@lkcc.org>
To: "Cygwin Mailing List" <cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com>
Sent: Sunday, October 01, 2000 4:12 AM
Subject: blocking connect()


>
> Hello CygWin'ers,
>
> The example program within the attachment shows a problem with connect()
> and non-blocking I/O. Normally a connect() with a socket set to
> non-bocking mode via fcntl(O_NONBLOCKING) should not block, but it does
> with the current (1.1.4) version of cygwin. Is this problem known to you ?
>
> Usually the operarion should state something like "Operation now in
> progress" and when select()ing in the write set afterwards you can
> determine if the connect() has been failed or not via
> getsockopt(SO_ERROR).
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Stefan.
>
> stefanlkcc.org
>


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