On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 11:44 AM, Johannes Sixt <j6t@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Samstag, 16. Januar 2010, Erik Faye-Lund wrote: >> On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 9:08 AM, Johannes Sixt <j6t@xxxxxxxx> wrote: >> > Wouldn't it be possible to call getsockopt(), and if it returns ENOTSOCK >> > (WSAENOTSOCK), then it is a pipe? >> >> I read reports that this didn't work in Wine. Not that I care that >> much about Wine. > > What does it mean that "it does not work"? Is it that it does not return > ENOTSOCK, so that we mistake pipes as sockets? > > -- Hannes > Yes, according to the gnulib sources[1], getsockopt returns 0 for pipes. [1]: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=gnulib.git;a=blob;f=lib/poll.c;h=90d99d92dca5d7ce2f31097e4b8fc06a83aae245;hb=HEAD#l80 -- Erik "kusma" Faye-Lund -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html