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Date:	Thu, 26 Oct 2000 12:18:34 -0400
From:	"Charles S. Wilson" <cwilson AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu>
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To:	Mark Swanson <Mark DOT Swanson AT techspan DOT com>
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Subject:	Re: Bug report: with CVS
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Mark Swanson wrote:
> 
> Here's some additional info: perhaps you can make sense of the strace
> output?
> 

Well, the strace output didn't seem any more informative to me that the
original error message.  But, Corinna just checked in a fix that may
affect this problem -- why don't you try tonight's snapshot of
cygwin1.dll...

> For some reason there are systems (mostly 9x/ME, seldom NT) which flawed
> to duplicate a socket so that the duplicated socket isn't usable in
> further socket function calls. All those functions will then return
> WSAENOTSOCK.

"seldom NT" -- but not "never".  Perhaps this is the problem on your
machine...

> Anyway, the good news is, there's a way to work around that flaw.
> I'm now using special Winsock2 functions (WSADuplicateSocket/WSASocket)
> to duplicate the socket to the child process which is the recommended
> way for sharing sockets on Windows platforms.
[snip]
> Ok, I have just checked in the patch so it's accessible via CVS
> already or it will be in the next developers snapshot.

--Chuck

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