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author | Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org> | 2008-09-29 13:23:50 +0200 |
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committer | Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org> | 2008-09-29 13:28:59 +0200 |
commit | 32848a0b172a6f0f4f7122cc1c7c1050f85094df (patch) | |
tree | 504c55dbd1b0beb6903fd492288412c6f87eaedc /doc/posix-functions/select.texi | |
parent | 305951edfeb48e73ea5af3cd9b97e1642e439a0e (diff) | |
download | gnulib-32848a0b172a6f0f4f7122cc1c7c1050f85094df.tar.gz |
documentation update for mingw socket functions
2008-08-24 Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>
* doc/posix-functions/accept.texi: Update mingw problems.
* doc/posix-functions/bind.texi: Update mingw problems.
* doc/posix-functions/close.texi: Update mingw problems.
* doc/posix-functions/connect.texi: Update mingw problems.
* doc/posix-functions/getpeername.texi: Update mingw problems.
* doc/posix-functions/getsockname.texi: Update mingw problems.
* doc/posix-functions/getsockopt.texi: Update mingw problems.
* doc/posix-functions/ioctl.texi: Update mingw problems.
* doc/posix-functions/listen.texi: Update mingw problems.
* doc/posix-functions/recv.texi: Update mingw problems.
* doc/posix-functions/recvfrom.texi: Update mingw problems.
* doc/posix-functions/select.texi: Update mingw problems.
* doc/posix-functions/send.texi: Update mingw problems.
* doc/posix-functions/sendto.texi: Update mingw problems.
* doc/posix-functions/setsockopt.texi: Update mingw problems.
* doc/posix-functions/socket.texi: Update mingw problems.
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1 files changed, 10 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/doc/posix-functions/select.texi b/doc/posix-functions/select.texi index 1c6475263e..81e56116bb 100644 --- a/doc/posix-functions/select.texi +++ b/doc/posix-functions/select.texi @@ -4,26 +4,29 @@ POSIX specification: @url{http://www.opengroup.org/susv3xsh/select.html} -Gnulib module: --- +Gnulib module: sys_select Portability problems fixed by Gnulib: @itemize +@item +On Windows platforms (excluding Cygwin), @code{select} can only be +called on descriptors created by the @code{socket} function, not on regular +file descriptors. +@item +On Windows platforms (excluding Cygwin), error codes for @code{accept} are not +placed in @code{errno}, and @code{WSAGetLastError} must be used instead. @end itemize Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib: @itemize @item -This function is missing on some platforms: -mingw. -@item When you call @code{select} with a timeout, some implementations modify the timeout parameter so that upon return from the function, it contains the amount of time not slept. Other implementations leave the timeout parameter unmodified. @item -On Windows platforms (excluding Cygwin) and on BeOS, @code{select} can only be -called on descriptors created by the @code{socket} function, not on regular -file descriptors. +On BeOS, @code{select} can only be called on descriptors created by the +@code{socket} function, not on regular file descriptors. @item On Linux, when some file descriptor refers to a regular file, @code{select} may fail, setting @code{errno} to @code{EBADF}. |