From:	newsham AT lava DOT net (Tim Newsham)
Subject:	Re: setfl () and accept ()
9 May 1998 00:07:17 -0700 :
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To:	tgrooms AT earthlink DOT net
Cc:	gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com

> Arg.  It seems that I've been bitten.  Since signals aren't supported very
> well in the gnu-win32, I had to come up with an alternative way to get
> around the blocking habit of accept () and connect ().  I decided to change
> the sockets to asynchronous behavior using setfl (socket, F_SETFL,
> O_NONBLOCK | flags).  Well, it reports that everything is okay but, alas, it
> seems that the NONBLOCK property is ignored.  I still block hard and fast at
> the accept () or connect ().
> 	Does anyone have another option or a solution?

the fcntl non-blocking flag does not work, but the equivalent ioctl
flag does work:

        int true = 1;

        ioctl(sock, FIONBIO, &true);

> Terry Grooms
> tgrooms AT earthlink DOT com

                                            Tim N.

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