Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sourceware.cygnus.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com From: Chris Faylor Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 17:39:31 -0400 To: "'cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com'" Subject: Re: Using ioctl(fd, FIONBIO, &on) for non-blocking socket and connect () returns with error "no more processes" Message-ID: <20000420173931.A3346@cygnus.com> Reply-To: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Mail-Followup-To: cgf@cygnus.com, "'cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com'" References: <7B4C28C84831D211BFA200805F9F34567030EA@nswcdlvaex04.nswc.navy.mil> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.1.8i In-Reply-To: <7B4C28C84831D211BFA200805F9F34567030EA@nswcdlvaex04.nswc.navy.mil>; from FontenotLA@NSWC.NAVY.MIL on Thu, Apr 20, 2000 at 05:20:56PM -0400 On Thu, Apr 20, 2000 at 05:20:56PM -0400, Fontenot Larry A DLVA wrote: >I wrote a simple TCP client and server to test some of the socket >capabilities in cygwin. I setup cygwin yesterday pulling down the latest >"gz" files and using "setup.exe" to install. I am using the gcc-2.95.2 >compiler. > >I found out the hard way that fcntl doesn't work for creating a non-blocking >socket, so I used ioctl(fd, FIONBIO, &on) and that seems to work. However, >when I call connect(), I get an error back "no more processes". If I >comment out the ioctl call, it works just fine. Is this a known problem? >Are there any fixes or workarounds? Any non-blocking capability for sockets is going to come straight from winsock, AFAIK. If it is not there it's probably possible to add this by putting a wrapper around some of the socket I/O but it's not there now and I'm not aware of anyone working on adding this. Christopher Faylor Cygwin Engineering Manager (and Developer) Cygnus Solutions, a Red Hat manager -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com