Yeah, I had done that, thanks. 
Just wanted to find out if it’s just us with the issue as didn’t see anything 
mentioned on the list.

On 7 Aug 2014, at 22:26, Zachary Turner <[email protected]> wrote:

> Ahh, I see.  Can you just put an #ifdef _WIN32 that doesn't add the pipe_fd 
> to the fd_set for Windows?  It's broken either way, but at least this way 
> it's less broken.
> 
> 
> On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 2:25 PM, Deepak Panickal <[email protected]> wrote:
> Yes, we have a regression in behaviour.
> 
> Before _pipe() was added, pipes were ignored on Windows. They were not added 
> to the read_fds list for select(). So, the BytesAvailable() did not error.
> 
> However, now since pipes are created, it is added to the read_fds list and 
> then select() fails like you said, because it is not a socket. It fails with 
> a WSAENOTSOCK error. Due to this, the BytesAvailable() errors out and no data 
> is read from the remote socket connection. 
> 
> I only found this after the merge, as we were not able to read data from our 
> remote debug stub.
> 
> On 7 Aug 2014, at 22:15, Zachary Turner <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> Yes, that's correct.  It's just that on Windows, select() won't accept a 
>> pipe, it will just return an error.  Which we also don't handle correctly, 
>> it turns out, since we assume that the error it's returning is an errno, 
>> which on Windows it's not.  
>> 
>> That said, I'm pretty sure ConnectionFileDescriptor has never worked on 
>> Windows.  Are you seeing a regression in behavior?  i.e. something worked 
>> before you merged, but now it doesn't?
>> 
>> 
>> On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 2:06 PM, Deepak Panickal <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Ah, so it is a known issue. Thanks, got it now.
>> We recently did a merge which brought in the new changes from upstream.
>> 
>> Isn’t the ::select used in ConnectionFileDescriptor to wait till input is 
>> available? 
>> Not just from the command pipe, but also from the sockets.
>> 
>> On 7 Aug 2014, at 21:38, Zachary Turner <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>>> Sorry, hit enter too soon.  I have been thinking about next steps for 
>>> fixing this in the longer term.  I think the way to go is that on Windows, 
>>> ConnectionFileDescriptor shouldn't even use select at all, nor should it 
>>> use the command pipe.  The purpose of the command pipe seems to be so that 
>>> various interrupt commands can be sent to interrupt the select, and then 
>>> terminate the connection or something else so that it doesn't block forever.
>>> 
>>> On Windows, the closest equivalent to select is WaitForMultipleObjects.  So 
>>> I think on Windows we need to switch to using WFMO instead of select().  
>>> The command pipe will be replaced by various event objects, which the user 
>>> will set according to which interruption command they want to send.  WFMO 
>>> doesn't accept sockets though, so we need to call WSAEventSelect() to get 
>>> an event handle corresponding to read/write operations on the socket.
>>> 
>>> There's numerous other portability issues with this class currently, most 
>>> notably that select() on windows doesn't set errno
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 1:34 PM, Zachary Turner <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> This is a known issue.  But I don't think this is a regression.  It's just 
>>> always been this way.  Basically on Windows, select() only deals with 
>>> sockets.  It doesn't work with pipes, files, or anything else.  In other 
>>> words, ConnectionFileDescriptor is just fundamentally broken on Windows.  I 
>>> recently pushed a large refactor to the socket logic in 
>>> ConnectionFileDescriptor which is aimed at addressing this.  But it's only 
>>> one step of what I think will be a long process to get 
>>> ConnectionFileDescriptor working on Windows.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 1:01 PM, Deepak Panickal <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> I have been seeing an issue with the refactored pipe support changes on 
>>> Windows using _pipe().
>>> 
>>> This is specifically at the ::select function in 
>>> ConnectionFileDescriptor::BytesAvailable().
>>> On Windows, the ::select fails if the pipe file descriptor is also included 
>>> and so the connection fails.
>>> 
>>> http://llvm.org/viewvc/llvm-project/lldb/trunk/source/Core/ConnectionFileDescriptor.cpp?view=markup
>>> 
>>> Wanted to ask if anybody else on Windows is seeing any such issue?
>>> 
>>> Thanks,
>>> Deepak
>>> 
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