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Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2000 15:39:15 -0500
From: Jason Tishler <Jason DOT Tishler AT dothill DOT com>
To: Cygwin-Developers <cygwin-developers AT sources DOT redhat DOT com>
Subject: Re: [PORTS] Re: ps and psql from PostgreSQL not working with cygwin-1.1.5-2
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In-Reply-To: <14855.49635.565990.716645@kryten.bedford.waii.com>; from gsez020@kryten.bedford.waii.com on Tue, Nov 07, 2000 at 08:48:35AM +0000
Organization: Dot Hill Systems Corp.

On Tue, Nov 07, 2000 at 08:48:35AM +0000, Pete Forman wrote:
> According to POSIX, connect() should never set errno to EAGAIN or
> EWOULDBLOCK.  (Those codes are appropriate for accept().)
> 
>   If the connection cannot be established immediately and O_NONBLOCK
>   is set for the file descriptor for the socket, connect( ) shall fail
>   and set errno to [EINPROGRESS], but the connection request shall not
>   be aborted, and the connection shall be established asynchronously.
>   Subsequent calls to connect( ) for the same socket, before the
>   connection is established, shall fail and set errno to [EALREADY].

If we can agree that connect() should behave as above, then I'm willing to
provide a patch to make it so.  Do we?

Thanks,
Jason

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