fhandler_socket::dup

Christopher Faylor cgf@redhat.com
Wed Mar 12 05:57:00 GMT 2003


On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 12:15:25AM -0500, Pierre A. Humblet wrote:
>At 04:20 PM 3/11/2003 +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>
>>> > I'm seriously concidering to remove all the fixup_before/fixup_after
>>> > from fhandler_socket::dup() and just call fhandler_base::dup() on
>>> > NT systems.
>
>Corinna,
>
>I like that and I have pushed the logic to also do it on Win9X, without
>apparent bad effects. I just delivered 140 e-mails from a WinME to an exim 
>server on Win98, ran inetd, ssh, etc... I also tried duping a socket after a 
>fork, it worked fine.

I think it doesn't work fine on Windows 95, IIRC.

cgf



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