From: sos AT prospect DOT com DOT 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 AT cygnus DOT com" <gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com>, "'Duran'" <duran AT vdl2 DOT ca>

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.

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Sergey Okhapkin, http://www.lexa.ru/sos
Moscow, Russia
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