cvs broken on win2k after recent cygwin upgrade: "The descriptor is a file, not a socket"

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Sun, Apr 15, 2001 at 09:07:28AM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 15, 2001 at 09:22:58AM +0100, Henry S. Thompson wrote:
> >Thanks for the observations.  Seems to me to confirm Corinna's
> >original belief that somehow Cygwin is getting the wrong WINSOCK
> >library, even though the right one is available.
> 
> Cygwin uses wsock32.dll.

That's not quite correct. Cygwin uses ws2_32.dll if available.
The reason is the Winsock2 functionality used for duplicating
sockets. The old method is still implemented as a fallback, though.

Corinna

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