Re: Select waits for NonBlocking fd

[Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>]

On Thu, Jul 04, 2002 at 07:59:16PM +1000, Anurag Sharma wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> We have come across a peculiar problem while setting up sockets for
> connection.
> 
> 1) We make the socket non-blocking 
> 2) give it an invalid port to connect to on the localhost.
> 3) errno is correctly set to EINPROGRESS
> 4) Doing a select on the socket waits indefinetly!!
> 
> Attached is code that displays this  behaviour. This code works as
> expected on linux.
> 
> Also if we check for socket error using  getsockopt before we do a select,
> no error is returned. On linux it correctly returns 'Connection refused'.

Thanks for the report and especially thanks for the test application.
I've applied a patch to the Cygwin source.  You could try the next
Cygwin developers snapshot.

Corinna

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