Making a Nonblocking socket for WinSocks and *nix

Question

In C/C++, how would I turn a blocking socket into a non blocking socket in both WinSocks and *nix; so that select() would work correctly. You can use the pre-processor for the platform specific code.

Answer 1

select() is supposed to work on blocking sockets. It returns when a read() would return immediately, which is always the case with non-blocking sockets.

Answer 2

On linux:

fcntl(fd, F_SETFL, O_NONBLOCK);

Windows:

u_long on = 1;
ioctlsocket(fd, FIONBIO, &on);