From: jra@axon.cygnus.com (Jeremy Allison) Subject: Re: Select returns (-1) for STDIN_FILENO 17 Dec 1996 15:56:53 -0800 Sender: daemon@cygnus.com Approved: cygnus.gnu-win32@cygnus.com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: <199612172320.PAA04460.cygnus.gnu-win32@cygnus.com> Original-To: Ben Castrogiovanni Original-cc: gnu-win32@cygnus.com In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 17 Dec 1996 11:06:11 PST." <32B6EF23.3226@casabyte.com> Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32@cygnus.com Ben, Right now attempting to select on a console handle and a socket will immediately fail. This is due to the way select is implemented internally in Beta 17.1. It can be extended to do a blocking select on both sockets and console handles but this is not currently a high priority for me (I am using cygwin32 for the kerberos security code which doesn't have this requirement). I know how to extend select but it's a fiddly job :-). If anyone wants to contribute the code I'd be more than happy to integrate it (warning though, to be implemented correctly you'll need a separate socket select thread, a loopback socket for timeout cancellation and other uglyness). Cheers, Jeremy. jra@cygnus.com - For help on using this list, send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".