Help with fixing x2x...

[Harold L Hunt II]

Thomas Chadwick wrote:
> I added a printf statement and sure enough, the return value of select 
> is -1.  I then tried printf'ing the value returned by WSAGetLastError.  
> To make a long story short, I wound up having to comment out the 
> includes for <sys/types.h> and <sys/time.h> and include 
> <w32api/winsock.h> instead to get it to succesfully compile x2x.o; and I 
> had to add -lwsock32 in the Makefile to get it to successfully link 
> x2x.exe.
> 
> After doing this, select is still non-blocking, returning -1, and the 
> value returned by WSAGetLastError() is 10038, which seems to correspond 
> to the #define WSAENOTSOCK in winsock.h.
> 
> Any idea what this error code means and what steps I might take to fix it?
> 

Thomas,

Revert those include and Makefile changes.  You do not want to use 
Winsock, you want to use Cygwin's sockets.

Test the rewritten function that I just sent to the list.

Harold