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Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2002 08:58:11 -0500
To: "Takashi Yano" <yano AT crl DOT hitachi DOT co DOT jp>, <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall AT rfk DOT com>
Subject: Re: 1.3.13-2 & 1.3.14-1 problem on read() from dgram socket
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At 04:16 AM 10/31/2002, Takashi Yano wrote:
>Hello, everyone.
>
>I'd like to report bug of latest release of cygwin.
>
>I found that read() from dgram socket fails on cygwin 1.3.13-2 or 1.3.14-1
>under Windows 2000 or Windows XP.
>
>Cygwin 1.3.12-4 does not have this problem.
>Also, this problem does not apear under Windows 98.
>
>Due to this problem, inetd of inetutils-1.3.2-19 get into full load
>after receiving dgram "discard" request on udp port 9.
>Build-in "discard" daemon of inetd  calls read() instead of recv()
>to sink data from dgram socket in discard_dg(), but the read() fails.
>Then select() returns repeatedly every time after read() fails.
>
>I hope this problem will be resolved in next release.


Me too...  sorry, I couldn't resist! :-)



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