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Date: Tue, 05 Mar 2002 08:23:57 -0500
From: Jason Tishler <jason AT tishler DOT net>
Subject: Re: recv(..., MSG_PEEK) (was Re: fetchmail 5.9.8 and maildrop 1.3.7)
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Corinna,

On Tue, Mar 05, 2002 at 10:14:07AM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 10:56:50AM -0500, Jason Tishler wrote:
> > 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.

The above is what I thought.  I appreciate you confirming this.

I guess it is time for me to clean up my patch and submit it to fetchmail
CVS for consideration...

Thanks,
Jason

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