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Re: B20.1++ select bug
- To: Michele Liberi <mliberi at hotmail dot com>
- Subject: Re: B20.1++ select bug
- From: Chris Faylor <cgf at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2000 17:59:12 -0500
- Cc: cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- References: <20000126153524.41585.qmail@hotmail.com>
- Reply-To: cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
On Wed, Jan 26, 2000 at 07:35:24AM -0800, Michele Liberi wrote:
>I already appended this problem at the mailing list a few days ago. I was
>told to update my system at the latest cygwin1.dll available in the snapshot
>area. It didn't help. That's why I'm sending this help request again. I also
>tryed to upgrade the gcc compiler to 2.95.2 and recompile the program.
>
>The problem is simple: 'select' hangs (do not return) when reading from a
>pipe and the child process exit.
Sorry. It is a Windows limitation. Windows does not always let the other
end of a pipe know when one end disappears.
This may be fixed in a future snapshot but for now it is broken.
cgf
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