Subject: Re: Select waits for NonBlocking fd
From: Anurag Sharma <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Cc: [email-masked]
Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 18:58:49 +1000

On Fri, 5 Jul 2002 21:10:26 +0200
Corinna Vinschen <[email-masked]> wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 04, 2002 at 07:59:16PM +1000, Anurag Sharma wrote:
> > Hi All,
> > 
> > We have come across a peculiar problem while setting up sockets for
> > connection.
> > 
> > 1) We make the socket non-blocking 
> > 2) give it an invalid port to connect to on the localhost.
> > 3) errno is correctly set to EINPROGRESS
> > 4) Doing a select on the socket waits indefinetly!!
> > 
> > Attached is code that displays this  behaviour. This code works as
> > expected on linux.
> > 
> > Also if we check for socket error using  getsockopt before we do a
> > select, no error is returned. On linux it correctly returns
> > 'Connection refused'.
> 
> Thanks for the report and especially thanks for the test application.
> I've applied a patch to the Cygwin source.  You could try the next
> Cygwin developers snapshot.
> 
> Corinna

Is this patch supposed to be included in cygwin 1.3.12-cygwin-1-3-12-1.
Doesn't seem to be there.  

Regards,

Anurag

>

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