From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 24586 invoked from network); 8 Nov 2000 10:42:33 -0000 Received: from sunsite.dk (HELO sunsite.auc.dk) (130.225.51.30) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 8 Nov 2000 10:42:33 -0000 Received: (qmail 4658 invoked by alias); 8 Nov 2000 10:42:29 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-workers-help@sunsite.auc.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 13133 Received: (qmail 4650 invoked from network); 8 Nov 2000 10:42:28 -0000 X-Envelope-Sender-Is: Andrej.Borsenkow@mow.siemens.ru (at relayer goliath.siemens.de) From: "Andrej Borsenkow" To: Subject: RE: PATCH: Zpty cleanup (merge 13061 with 13116) Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2000 13:42:24 +0300 Message-ID: <001a01c04970$948d58f0$21c9ca95@mow.siemens.ru> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="koi8-r" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) In-Reply-To: <200011081020.LAA20686@beta.informatik.hu-berlin.de> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Importance: Normal > > > > However, that does not mean that the rest of the tests should be skipped > > when select() returns 0. A return of 0 means the select() timed out, > > which (apparently) might happen under Cygwin even if there actually are > > characters available to be read. Peter/Andrej, is that the case? > I had not much time recently. Casual test shows, that zpty is currently completely broken on current Cygwin (1.1.5-4 as of this writing); I do not claim that it is zsh problem, but recent changes may have made it worse. About select - so far there seems to be no known problems under cygwin (that does not mean, there are no problems). -andrej