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From: Vincent Dedun <kraken AT smousseland DOT com>
Subject: Re: ipc, sockets and windows sp2
Date: Sat, 9 Apr 2005 11:40:09 +0200
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com

>
>
>> There is a strange stuff, but it won't perturb me :
>> when i run my master/slaves programs, then run the testcase at the 
>> same
>> time and kill it, the slave may have a socket read error if it was
>> reading on the socket at the same time that testcase is launched.
>
> I'm wondering if that's realy related or just a coincidence.  Sockets
> have nothing to do with IPC, unless you're running on 9x, where the
> Cygserver/Client connection is done using sockets.

but it has to do with file descriptors.
I could reproduce it several time, each time the socket read error 
occurs when the testcase is running.
It may not be an IPC issue, but a fork issue.


>
>> So i have to tune slave so i don't quit on socket read, but retry to
>> read on the socket, and it's fine, as the socket read will fail only
>> when the testcase is launched.
>
> What's the error code you get?

read just return less byte than expected, and it occurs only in this 
case.


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