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Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2001 19:51:54 +0100
From: Corinna Vinschen <vinschen AT redhat DOT com>
To: cygwin-developers AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: Spurious EWOULDBLOCKs on NT4.0
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In-Reply-To: <20011030132229.A14004@redhat.com>; from cgf@redhat.com on Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 01:22:29PM -0500

On Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 01:22:29PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> I'm not sure that my solution is correct, though (and, in fact, I checked
> it in by mistake).
> 
> The linux documentation says this:
> 
>   When  enabled,  a  close(2) or shutdown(2) will not return until all queued messages for the socket have
>   been successfully sent or the linger timeout has been reached. Otherwise, the call  returns  immediately
>   and  the  closing  is  done  in the background.  When the socket is closed as part of exit(2), it always
>   lingers in the background.
> 
> That sounds like we shouldn't be blocking on close, but should just
> be ignoring the EAGAIN.
> 
> I'm going to make that change in a few minutes.


Please don't.  You can't rely on the Linux behaviour in Cygwin due to
the ugly way WSACleanup() works.

Corinna

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