From: sos@prospect.com.ru (Sergey Okhapkin) Subject: RE: fork() problem with sockets 10 Dec 1997 23:37:02 -0800 Message-ID: <01BD061E.701A01A0.cygnus.gnu-win32@gater.krystalbank.msk.ru> To: "gnu-win32@cygnus.com" , "'Duran'" Duran wrote: > Problem: The fork child does not inherate the file descriptors when working whith sockets. > > How to reproduce the problem: Just create a socket server, accept a connection and fork, you will notice that the child will not be able to use the sockets declared before the forking. The problem is Win95 specific. Winsock's socket() call returns non-inherittable socket handle on W95. Dowload patched cygwin.dll from my web page. -- Sergey Okhapkin, http://www.lexa.ru/sos 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".