OpenSSH and WinCVS in Windows 9x
Laurent Pinchart
laurent.pinchart@capflow.com
Thu Aug 8 13:23:00 GMT 2002
> The problem is not in cygwin. If you are communicating with pipes
> between non-cygwin application and a cygwin application and expecting
> EOF notification on pipes you are not going to get it. Microsoft
> doesn't provide any reliable way of finding that information on Windows
> 9x.
That's bad news :-(
>From the cygwin code (peek_pipe@select.cc), I assume that PeekNamedPipe
returns a negative value for lpTotalBytesAvail on EOF in win2k, and 0 in
win9x.
I'll write a simple application to check that tomorrow.
BTW I looked at the putty code, and it uses a thread to read from stdin.
Well, I still think it should be possible to get notified of such an event.
feof() from mscvrt manages to do so...
Laurent Pinchart
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