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Re: non-blocking socket?


> Hi, I am wondering there is any way to use a non-blocking receive in
> cygwin programs. I don't care if it is winsock or unix emulation
> socket. From what we learned from cygwin faq, I tried the following
program
> but it still appears to block.
>
> I appreciate if non-blocking socket is supposed to work and if so, how
> to use it.

----- Original Message -----
From: Ray Easton <ray.easton@wcom.com>
To: <cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com>
Sent: Saturday, November 06, 1999 12:40 AM
Subject: Re: B20.1: socket functions always blocking?

> > In the attached example, I expected recv to be non-blocking.
> > In fact, it seems like all socket functions always block!
>
> All sockets are created in blocking mode.  Use ioctl() to put them in
nno-blocking mode.
>
> --
>
> ray

read the archive ;-)

Regards,
S.Rekow


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