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Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2001 18:46:46 +0200
From: Corinna Vinschen <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: recv() blocking for non-blocking socket
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In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0109101130510.899-100000@wiehle.acorn-networks.com>; from omid@acorn-networks.com on Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 11:38:40AM -0400

On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 11:38:40AM -0400, Omid Roshan-Afshar wrote:
> I've looked through the archive, and I found
> some discussion about using accept() on non-blocking
> sockets, but none on recv(). If someone could spot
> any stupid errors in the following code, that would
> be great.
> 
>   {
>     int true = 1;
>     if (ioctl(sock_handle, FIONBIO, &true) != 0) {
>       if (errmsg!=NULL)
>         sprintf(errmsg, "ioctl(): %s", strerror(errno));
>       return GFAPI_ERR_FAIL;
>     }
>   }
> 
> I call recv after I do this and it blocks. I *think* I'm
> doing the appropriate thing to make the socket non-blocking.

Actually that's a bug in Cygwin 1.3.2. It should be solved
with the upcoming 1.3.3 version.

Corinna

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