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Re: fcntl(F_SETFD) on a file or socket handle


On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 05:53:17PM +0900, Dmitry Timoshkov wrote:
> "Corinna Vinschen" <cygwin@cygwin.com> wrote:
> 
> [skipped]
> 
> > > I see that fhandler_socket::fcntl() calls fhandler_base::fcntl() in
> > > all cases different from F_SETFL. Perhaps my understanding of things
> > > in C++ is not enough (I'm an old hand plain C programmer).
> > 
> > set_close_on_exec() is a virtual method which means, the called
> > method is dependent of the actual class of the object which calls
> > it.
> 
> Thanks for clarification.
> 
> > Did you get the sources of Cygwin via CVS?  If so, could
> > you please check if my just checked in patch works for you?
> 
> I don't get Cygwin sources from CVS, but I have looked into your patch
> after it has appeared in CVS. Using SetHandleInformation() on NT instead
> of DuplicateHandle()/CloseHandle() pair is much better IMO, and should
> not cause any side effects.

Yeah but even if the patch helps for NT, it wouldn't solve it
for 9x.  Sigh.

Corinna

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