From: rminnich AT sarnoff DOT com ("Ron G. Minnich") Subject: Re: probs porting ssh 20 Feb 1997 10:01:54 -0800 Approved: cygnus DOT gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Sender: rminnich AT terra Original-To: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com In-Reply-To: Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com On Thu, 20 Feb 1997, aspa wrote: > On Tue, 18 Feb 1997, Sheik wrote: > > What I was going to do, was cheat, and make a timeout for the select(), > > and just simply check stdin each time select() times out, (I have NO idea > > if this is good or bad, or will cause cpu usage to go sky high, I just > > wanted to see if it worked) it *does* timeout, and goes into a check against > > stdin by read()'ing the fd. > timeouts don't solve this problem. here's what i did for rstp: select on the console filehandle with a timeout of zero. Then select on the sockets with the standard timeout. This is ok on rstp because the sockets are what's really important, so if the console i/o has to wait a bit that is ok. I don't know if this approach will work for you. ron - For help on using this list, send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".