Il 05/09/2012 13:24, Joachim Schmitz ha scritto:
> However: this poll implementation, while compiling OK, doesn't work properly.
> Because it uses recv(...,MSG_PEEK), it works on sockets only (returns
> ENOTSOCK on anything else), while the real poll() works on all
> kind if file descriptors, at least that is my understanding.
Actually recv(...,MSG_PEEK) on most Unix variants works on non-sockets
too. The trick is taken from GNU Pth in turn.
> Here on HP NonStop, when being connected via an non-interactive SSH, we get a
> set of pipes (stdin, stdout, stderr) instead of a
> socket to talk to, so the poll() just hangs/loops.
Does your system have a working FIONREAD ioctl for pipes?
> As git's implementation is based on ('stolen' from?) gnulib's and still
> pretty similar, CC to the gnulib list and Paolo
>
> Any idea how this could get solved? I.e. how to implement a poll() that works
> on non-sockets too?
> There is some code that pertains to a seemingly similar problem in Mac OS X,
> but my problem is not identical, as that fix doesn't
> help.
Paolo
