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From:	"Emanuele Aliberti" <ealiberti AT hotmail DOT com>
To:	khan AT xraylith DOT wisc DOT EDU, crispen AT hiwaay DOT net
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Subject:	Re: fdopen() and winsock
Date:	Sun, 22 Aug 1999 17:53:18 CEST
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>Ah, as far as I know, one of the big limitations of winsock is that
>the SOCKET type is *not* equivalent to file descriptor unlike that
>using BSD or POSIX sockets. That's one of the major reasons for using
>a separate data type, SOCKET, as opposed to int, typical type of a
>file descriptor. This implies that you cannot mix SOCKETs and stdio,
>sorry. This is the case when you use -mno-cygwin.

socket handles are NOT file handles only under win9x. Under WNT they ARE 
file handles.


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