Possible problems in select() under Win95/98/ME

Christopher Faylor cgf@redhat.com
Wed Jan 31 07:45:00 GMT 2001


On Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 05:17:14PM +0200, Ehud Karni wrote:
>As it happens I had time-out in my proxy for the select(), set to 30
>seconds, I changed it to 1 and 3 second and ran my proxy.  There seem
>to be loopback connection created for each select() return.  Then I had
>some net activity (not related to the proxy or Cygwin) and the creation
>of the loopback connection CEASED !.  I then changed the time-out to
>300 milliseconds, and no loopback connection was created.

As always, much of this speculation and wonder could be obviated by
reading the source code.

cgf

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