On Monday 19 August 2002 9:33 am, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > >>>>> "Angus" == Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Angus> So, why's LyX going crazy and continually opening and closing > Angus> the connection under Tru64 unix? Is this something I should > Angus> worry about? > > The semantics of select on a named pipe are different on tru64 and > others. This means that the lyxserver is utterly broken on this OS. I > tried to find a solution a few years ago but gave up.
Didn't André post a pipestream class to the list some time ago? These sort of semantic differences should be encapsulated and hidden away. If I'm imagining this posting, then a quick google search throws up socket++ http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/lavender/courses/socket++/ which may, of course, be overkill! Angus
