Mail Archives: cygwin/2005/04/19/06:13:35
On Apr 15 22:45, Tony Jaa wrote:
> Cygwin v1.5.12-1/Windows 2000
>
> Cygwin poll() uses POLLPRI as the flag for detecting
> exceptions, POLLPRI must be explicitly set (otherwise
> socket exceptions aren't reported), and POLLERR is
> only used when select() returns -1 but there was no
> WSAENOTCONN. However, the Unix man page for poll()
> says POLLPRI is for detecting urgent data to read,
> POLLERR is for detecting exceptions, and POLLERR does
> not need to be explicitly set in the pollfd.events
> field. Why is POLLPRI used for detecting exceptions
> instead of POLLERR? Why are exceptions only detected
> when POLLPRI is set instead of being detected
> automatically?
I've created a patch which should result in poll behaving more closely
to Linux. It didn't make it into the 1.5.15 release but you can try
the latest developer snapshot from http://www.cygwin.com/snapshots/
Thanks for the testcase,
Corinna
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