Re: [PATCH v2 13/14] daemon: use select() instead of poll()

From: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Date: Jan 16, 2010, 08:08 UTC
Message-ID: <201001160908.33996.j6t@kdbg.org>
In-Reply-To: <40aa078e1001151508j208fa50boc5565a3be6bef893@mail.gmail.com>

On Samstag, 16. Januar 2010, Erik Faye-Lund wrote:

> The problem with that is differentiating between pipes and sockets.
> GetFileType() returns FILE_TYPE_PIPE for sockets (ugh). I did find
> some code in gnulib that used WSAEnumNetworkEvents() to differentiate
> between them, but I find this quite hacky.

Wouldn't it be possible to call getsockopt(), and if it returns ENOTSOCK (WSAENOTSOCK), then it is a pipe?

-- Hannes

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