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Re: recvfrom + MSG_PEEK = broken?


On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 05:01:00PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>On Mar 22 10:56, Charles Wilson wrote:
>> On 3/22/2010 7:03 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>> > On Mar 22 02:04, Charles Wilson wrote:
>> >> I've been tracking down a problem in xinetd. It appears to be an issue
>> >> with using MSG_PEEK in recvfrom() on UDP sockets.
>> > 
>> > Yes, that's a bug in Cygwin.  The socket event handling got messed up
>> > when MSG_PEEK was used.  I fixed that in CVS so it will be in 1.7.2.
>> 
>> Confirmed: fixes both my testcase, and the error in xinetd. Thanks for
>> the quick turnaround!  I was about ready to pull my hair out on this
>
>Sure.  I'm glad I had a simple testcase for a socket problem.  If only
>somebody would come up with an equally simple testcase for the rsync
>problem...

I thought the rsync problem was due to the fact that select for write on
pipes is unreliable.

cgf

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