Re: LuaSocket: asynchronous connect on Windows not behaving properly

[Florian Weimer <fw@...>]

* Jerome Vuarand:

> 2009/11/12 Jerome Vuarand <jerome.vuarand@gmail.com>:
>> It seems that on Linux, the socket is signaled as writable by select
>> whether it is connected or connection failed. In both cases exceptfds
>> is returned empty. So the following script still exhibits different
>> behaviour on Windows and Linux :
>
> Some food for thoughts : I've been given the following links, that
> show that non-blocking connect result detection is not trivial.
>
> http://cr.yp.to/docs/connect.html

Last updated nine years ago.  getsockopt(SO_ERROR) is portable
nowadays if you take care of both ways to return the error (int out
parameter and errno).