Mail Archives: cygwin/2007/06/27/04:10:15
On Jun 22 11:34, Lev Bishop wrote:
> On 6/22/07, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>
> >However, the next version of Cygwin will use standard DuplicateHandle
> >calls as for normal file handles. Consequentially your
> >your test application appears to work with a Cygwin built from CVS:
>
> But MSDN says:
> You should not use DuplicateHandle to duplicate handles to the
> following objects:
>
> * I/O completion ports. No error is returned, but the duplicate
> handle cannot be used.
> * Sockets. No error is returned, but the duplicate handle may not
> be recognized by
> Winsock at the target process. Also, using DuplicateHandle interferes
> with internal reference counting on the underlying object. To
> duplicate a socket handle, use the
> WSADuplicateSocket function.
I see this mentioned on the MSDN web pages, but I don't see this on my
very recent MSDN Library DVD. Only I/O completion ports are mentioned
as not being duplicatable by DuplicateHandle. Sockets are in the list
of duplicatable objects. It would be really weird, too, since it was
never a problem to duplicate a socket on NT. We only ever had problems on
95/98/Me. These 95/98/Me problems were the reason to switch Cygwin
from using DuplicateHandle on sockets to WSADuplicateSocket/WSASocket
back in 2000.
Corinna
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