[Info-vax] "bad select 38" (OpenSSL on VMS)

[Richard Levitte]

Den måndag 19 september 2016 kl. 14:38:27 UTC+2 skrev johnwa... at yahoo.co.uk:
> From memory, and after briefly trying to check the
> world of Windows as it is today, calling select()
> in a Win32 application will return the error
> WSAENOTSOCK
> if one of the specified fds ins anything other than
> a socket. See e.g. (URL will wrap)
> https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-gb/library/windows/desktop/ms740141(v=vs.85).aspx
> 
> But apparently it's only VMS that's got a problem
> with this behaviour. Windows has other redeeming
> features that make this behaviour a non-problem
> on a Window box (presumably).

Not sure how you mean that VMS has a problem with that behaviour while Windows doesn't...  if you're talking about OpenSSL, the problem has been worked around quite differently on Windows than on VMS, but either way, there had to be a workaround.

Cheers,
Richard