[corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com: Re: ENOTSOCK errors with cygwin dll 1.3.21 and 1.3.22]

[Christopher Faylor]

On Sun, May 25, 2003 at 05:03:02PM -0400, Pierre A. Humblet wrote:
>At 11:30 AM 5/24/2003 +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>>Perhaps we should revert to Winsock2 duplicating and reactivate
>>Jason's idea to just ignore the WSAENOTSOCK from close()?
>>
>>Corinna
>
>It's more complicated than that. The old behavior is that the dup
>was failing silently and returning the dupeed (old) handle instead 
>of a duped (new) one. That's not acceptable IMO, dup should fail
>if it can't do what it's supposed to.
>Later the program was closing both the old and new handles,
>with the second close failing (as it should).
>I would like to better understand what's going on, at least until
>we are close to a release. 

I intend on making a 1.5.0 release next week, as soon as I return from
my current trip.

It would be nice to figure out what's going on here, though.

cgf