[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Winsock patch

[Andreas Kemnade <akemnade@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jeff Mallatt writes:
 > At 2001/02/13 10:16 , Andreas Kemnade wrote:
 > >I think we should use the old SOCKET_ZERO_ISNT_STDIN code and move it
 > >to support.c instead of using that fileno() stuff because this code
 > >should work because it is in CVS. (Don't change a running system)
 > 
 > My patch did attempt to return (mostly) to using the "old
 > SOCKET_ZERO_ISNT_STDIN" code, moved to support.c.  I guess you are
 > suggesting that it go all the way and do the character-by-character input
 > processing, right?
 > 
Yes

 > The "fileno() stuff" is an addition to get SOCKET_ZERO_ISNT_STDIN code to
 > work for the first time on Linux -- it never did, before.
I have never seen that code working, too.
I have tested calling fgetc on amigaos (using 
"m68k-amigaos-gcc -noixemul") but that blocks, too.
 > 
 > I should have added a configure test for fileno(), but got lazy.  I'll do
 > this and post an updated patch.
The only purpose would be to test this code on linux?
 
Greetings
Andreas Kemnade