fhandler_socket::dup

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 09:43:35AM -0500, Pierre A. Humblet wrote:
> 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,
> 
> Isn't that just what you do now?

I created the patch after sending the mail.

> Just out of curiosity, why hasn't this always been done? I blindly thought
> it couldn't but I have just looked up MSDN and there is no mention of any 
> restriction of DuplicateHandle with sockets, on any platform. 

Using WinSock2 should workaround the problem with the order in which sockets
are closed on 9x.

Corinna

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