From: sos@prospect.com.ru (Sergey Okhapkin) Subject: RE: select & pipe does not work! 16 May 1997 17:07:47 -0700 Approved: cygnus.gnu-win32@cygnus.com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: <01BC6268.440B66D0.cygnus.gnu-win32@sos> Original-To: "gnu-win32@cygnus.com" , "'Peter.Eggimann@mgb.ch'" Original-Cc: "'Geoffrey Noer'" Encoding: 15 TEXT Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32@cygnus.com Peter.Eggimann@mgb.ch wrote: > Hi, > I encountered a problem while porting some software. The select call > (waiting for a pipe) returns immediate even thougt there is no data > available from the pipe. Looks like a cygwin bug. Pipes are handled with fhandler_base:fhandler_disk_file class, whose member function always_read_ready() returns 1 (fhandler.h). We need a separate fhandler_pipe class... -- Sergey Okhapkin Moscow, Russia Looking for a job - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".