Mail Archives: cygwin/1997/10/22/00:55:01
Tim Newsham wrote:
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>
> I have a couple of questions about cygwin.dll (winsup) src:
>
> - why does select iterate over all the file descriptors instead
> of just the ones set in the bit vectors?
Select iterates over first n (the first argument of select) file
descriptors set in one of fd_set masks.
>
> - why does select open up a stream socket after firing off the
> select thread?
To force select thread to exit by closing this socket when an event occured
on non-socket handle.
>
> - Couldn't asynchronous operations be used to select on sockets
> instead of firing off a seperate thread?
This case we must create a thread with a window to wait for socket events.
Also, WSAAsyncSelect automatically sets the socket unblocked, so we'll need
to care about. More harmness than goodness... Using winsock 2 instead of
winsock 1.1 will be more suitable with cygwin needs, but Windows 95 doesn't
have built in support for ws 2.
>
> - Is there any way of asynchronously checking for data on a pipe?
No way for anonymous pipes :-( My additions to b18 select() makes a polling
select on pipes with 10ms interval. *sigh*
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