bug#23658: 25.1.50; make-network-connection fails to connect to IPv6 address on Windows

[Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu>]

On 6/12/2016 4:04 PM, Ken Brown wrote:
> On 6/5/2016 2:00 PM, Ken Brown wrote:
>> On 6/5/2016 1:20 PM, Ken Brown wrote:
>>> OK, my guess was wrong.  I'm out of ideas.  I hope one of the experts
>>> can help you.
>>
>> One last thought: Your original report mentioned an error code of 14.
>> That may be bogus, for the reasons explained in bug#23615.  The
>> following patch might get a more reliable error code, which you could
>> then look up.  (On my system you would look in /usr/include/sys/errno.h.)
>>
>> diff --git a/src/process.c b/src/process.c
>> index 9ca3e594..d71c50c 100644
>> --- a/src/process.c
>> +++ b/src/process.c
>> @@ -5492,7 +5492,7 @@ wait_reading_process_output (intmax_t
>> time_limit, int nsecs, int read_kbd,
>>
>>               p = XPROCESS (proc);
>>
>> -#ifdef GNU_LINUX
>> +#if 1
>>               /* getsockopt(,,SO_ERROR,,) is said to hang on some
>> systems.
>>                  So only use it on systems where it is known to work.  */
>>               {
>
> Fran, you may want to try the patch that Paul recently posted to
> bug#17976.  This may help with your problem.

On second thought, the part of Paul's patch that I thought might help 
doesn't seem to apply to MS-Windows.  I'm not sure how hard it would be 
to extend it to Windows.

Ken