Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2002 10:14:07 +0100 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: recv(..., MSG_PEEK) (was Re: fetchmail 5.9.8 and maildrop 1.3.7) Message-ID: <20020305101407.N13590@cygbert.vinschen.de> Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <20020302004512.A1936@LOKI> <20020302160332.GA1976@hp.com> <20020302221220.A4040@LOKI> <20020303024718.GB2116@hp.com> <20020303155818.A3120@LOKI> <20020304155650.GA1424@hp.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020304155650.GA1424@hp.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.22.1i On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 10:56:50AM -0500, Jason Tishler wrote: > Corinna, > > On Sun, Mar 03, 2002 at 03:58:18PM +0000, Rui Carmo wrote: > > On Sat, Mar 02, 2002 at 09:47:19PM -0500, Jason Tishler wrote: > > > > I was under the impression that recv() bugs had been twiddled in > > > > 1.3.10... Or did the changes in recv() not address MSG_PEEK? > > > > > > Hmm, I will look into this. It would be great if my patch just became > > > obsolete. > > > > The release notes (post by Cristopher: > > http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2002-02/msg01350.html) mention recv() > > explicitly: > > > > > - Implement socket read/write using recv/send. (corinna) > > > > Bit vague, though, so I don't know if Corinna tackled the MSG_PEEK > > issue. > > Could you comment as to whether or not the above changes would have any > positive affects on the following? > > http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2001-08/msg00628.html No. The above change is sort of a code cleanup. I don't know how we could workaround that Winsock problem in Cygwin. It doesn't know from where you got the `n' parameter and it's perfectly legal for a read() call to return a number of bytes < n. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com Red Hat, Inc. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/