From:	sos AT prospect DOT com DOT ru (Sergey Okhapkin)
Subject:	RE: select & pipe does not work!
16 May 1997 17:07:47 -0700 :
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	"'Peter DOT Eggimann AT mgb DOT ch'" <Peter DOT Eggimann AT mgb DOT ch>
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Peter DOT Eggimann AT mgb DOT ch wrote:
> Hi,
> I encountered a problem while porting some software. The select call
> (waiting for a pipe) returns immediate even thougt there is no data
> available from the pipe.

Looks like a cygwin bug. Pipes are handled with 
fhandler_base:fhandler_disk_file class, whose member function 
always_read_ready() returns 1 (fhandler.h). We need a separate 
fhandler_pipe class...

--
Sergey Okhapkin
Moscow, Russia
Looking for a job

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