Am 29.04.2010 12:53, schrieb Thomas Wolff: [on closed terminal] > On Linux, select() indicates an exception and EIO. > On SunOS, select() indicates both an exception and input (weird),
Not weird, you appear to be misunderstanding select(). An IEEE Std 1003.1 compliant select(): - only states that a subsequent read() will *not block* this includes EOF and error, as they make read() return without blocking) - makes *no statements about success* > On Cygwin, the following is observed: > * EOF is not signalled on read(); rather EIO is indicated right away. > (Maybe not too bad, an application can handle that as well.) > * select() with timeout hangs. > > Especially the latter can hardly be handled by an application. Pointers for workarounds: alarm(), signal(). -- Matthias Andree -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
