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Date: Tue, 28 Dec 1999 07:45:40 -0500
From: John Fortin <fortinj AT ibm DOT net>
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Subject: Re: filedescriptors and sockets
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If you use -mno-cygwin, you "lose" the cygwin select() which handles
file descriptors in the unix way.  You end up with the windows version
of select() which only handles socket descriptors.


John

stefan wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 27 Dec 1999, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> 
> > Cygwin does not make a distinction between sockets and normal
> > file descriptors.  It's should work just like UNIX.
> 
> I compiled the program with the -mno-cygwin option. And there the select()
> statement return an error if there are "normal" filedescriptors (from a
> _pipe()) in the field.
> Why is this ?
> 
> stefan.
> 
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