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Re: error setting pipe to non-blocking IO
- From: Brian Ford <ford at vss dot fsi dot com>
- To: Andy Howell <AndyHowell at austin dot rr dot com>
- Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2003 16:57:50 -0500 (CDT)
- Subject: Re: error setting pipe to non-blocking IO
- References: <3F906430.5000100@austin.rr.com>
On Fri, 17 Oct 2003, Andy Howell wrote:
> I am trying to setup a pipe to do non-blocking IO:
>
> int main()
> {
> int pipefd[2];
> int n;
> n = 1;
>
> pipe(pipefd);
> perror("Pipe: ");
> ioctl(pipefd[0], FIOBIO, &n);
> perror("Ioctl: ");
> }
>
> When I run this, I get:
>
> Pipe: No Error
> Ioctl: Invalid argument
>
> Any ideas?
>
Yup, unsupported.
from src/winsup/cygwin/fhandler.cc:909
int
fhandler_base::ioctl (unsigned int cmd, void *buf)
{
if (cmd == FIONBIO)
syscall_printf ("ioctl (FIONBIO, %p)", buf);
else
syscall_printf ("ioctl (%x, %p)", cmd, buf);
set_errno (EINVAL);
return -1;
}
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Brian Ford
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FlightSafety International
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