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From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Query: issue with cygwin-curl 7.15.0 - cannot close some connections
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On Nov 28 04:04, Brian Dessent wrote:
> The reason that it apparently did not realize that the connection had
> been terminated was that the Cygwin poll() was returning 1 with the 
> POLLHUP bit set in 'revents'.  But curl was not aware of this bit and
> only looked for POLLIN, so it got confused, which caused the infinite
> loop.
> 
> This was changed several weeks ago in Cygwin by this:
> <http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-cvs/2005-q4/msg00077.html> which means that
> if you use a recent snapshot (and presumably the forthcoming 1.5.19
> release) you should not experience the problem.
> 
> I'm debating whether it would be a good idea to put out an updated curl
> that checks for POLLHUP to get things working again with older cygwins.

Sounds like a good idea.


Corinna

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