Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2001 18:44:50 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: cvs broken on win2k after recent cygwin upgrade: "The descriptor is a file, not a socket" Message-ID: <20010415184450.V20490@cygbert.vinschen.de> Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <002e01c0b29d$c880d5b0$0401a8c0@trinity> <010e01c0bafa$f04d9320$2b904f86@trinity> <07fd01c0c3dc$cf05f730$0200a8c0@voyager> <20010414161237.A4149051@MELON> <20010415090728.B8359@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010415090728.B8359@redhat.com>; from cgf@redhat.com on Sun, Apr 15, 2001 at 09:07:28AM -0400 On Sun, Apr 15, 2001 at 09:07:28AM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Sun, Apr 15, 2001 at 09:22:58AM +0100, Henry S. Thompson wrote: > >Thanks for the observations. Seems to me to confirm Corinna's > >original belief that somehow Cygwin is getting the wrong WINSOCK > >library, even though the right one is available. > > Cygwin uses wsock32.dll. That's not quite correct. Cygwin uses ws2_32.dll if available. The reason is the Winsock2 functionality used for duplicating sockets. The old method is still implemented as a fallback, though. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com Red Hat, Inc. -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple