From: Ron@OrCAD.com (Ron Forrester) Subject: RE: Select function call 31 Jan 1997 13:49:13 -0800 Approved: cygnus.gnu-win32@cygnus.com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Original-To: "'larry@3-cities.com'" , "'gnu-win32'" X-Mailer: Microsoft Exchange Server Internet Mail Connector Version 4.0.993.5 Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32@cygnus.com Someone else may confirm/deny this, but I believe select() is currently broken when used on different types of handles (i.e. combination of network and stdin for instance). rjf >-----Original Message----- >From: Larry Gerhardstein [SMTP:larry@3-cities.com] >Sent: Thursday, January 30, 1997 11:07 PM >To: gnu-win32 >Subject: Select function call > >Does the select() function call work in Cygnus? According to online >information and FAQ, I am led to believe it should. > >A program which I am attempting to port to Cygnus calls select() to >multiplex standard-in and a network socket. The network connect, and >I/O over the socket works. However, the value returned by select() >always is -1 and the value in errno is 1 (EPERM), both on NT 3.51 and >4.0. I have not tried this on Win95. > >On Solaris 2.5.1, I link with libsocket and libnsl. On Cygnus, I am >linking without any additional libraries. > >-- >Larry Gerhardstein -- Kennewick, Washington >larry@3-cities.com >- >For help on using this list, send a message to >"gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help". - For help on using this list, send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".