From: Johannes Sixt Date: Sat, 16 Jan 2010 08:08:33 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 13/14] daemon: use select() instead of poll() 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