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| author | Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org> | 2019-06-30 14:48:50 +0200 |
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| committer | Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org> | 2019-06-30 14:48:50 +0200 |
| commit | 1d56a7919af2bbf9245e9c55cd9458d88887dae6 (patch) | |
| tree | e76651a21dc4c7d6c36f08c487c67aca0801c17a | |
| parent | a734086a9b2783d74f01f8f5ac10d7b601c07120 (diff) | |
| download | gnulib-1d56a7919af2bbf9245e9c55cd9458d88887dae6.tar.gz | |
poll: Add comment.
* lib/poll.c: Add comment about WSAPoll.
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| -rw-r--r-- | lib/poll.c | 7 |
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@@ -1,5 +1,10 @@ 2019-06-30 Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org> + poll: Add comment. + * lib/poll.c: Add comment about WSAPoll. + +2019-06-30 Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org> + poll-h: Fix compilation error on mingw with _WIN32_WINNT >= 0x0600. Reported by Hannes Müller <h.c.f.mueller@gmx.de>. * lib/poll.in.h: Include <winsock2.h>. diff --git a/lib/poll.c b/lib/poll.c index f6de24c793..5d9150c13a 100644 --- a/lib/poll.c +++ b/lib/poll.c @@ -76,6 +76,13 @@ #ifdef WINDOWS_NATIVE +/* Do *not* use the function WSAPoll + <https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/desktop/api/winsock2/nf-winsock2-wsapoll> + because there is a bug named “Windows 8 Bugs 309411 - WSAPoll does not + report failed connections” that Microsoft won't fix. + See Daniel Stenberg: "WASPoll is broken" + <https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2012/10/10/wsapoll-is-broken/>. */ + /* Here we need the recv() function from Windows, that takes a SOCKET as first argument, not any possible gnulib override. */ # undef recv |