fork() incorrectly invalidates socket fd

Corinna Vinschen cygwin@cygwin.com
Mon Sep 24 02:03:00 GMT 2001


On Sun, Sep 23, 2001 at 11:49:07PM -0500, Andrew de los Reyes wrote:
> i think i found a bug in version 1.3.3 of cygwin. fork() appeares to
> be causing a file descriptor to be invalidated.
> 
> when i try to recv(), i get the following error:
> 
> The descriptor is a file, not a socket

Yep, that's a known bug which will be fixed in 1.3.4.

Corinna

-- 
Corinna Vinschen                  Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to
Cygwin Developer                                mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com
Red Hat, Inc.

--
Unsubscribe info:      http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Bug reporting:         http://cygwin.com/bugs.html
Documentation:         http://cygwin.com/docs.html
FAQ:                   http://cygwin.com/faq/



More information about the Cygwin mailing list