some bug fixes

['Chris Faylor']

On Fri, Feb 25, 2000 at 05:13:16PM -0000, Fifer, Eric wrote:
>
>>I don't understand your select patch, so I'm not going to check it in.
>
>I was just porting some code that happened to do a select
>to check exceptions on stdout.  In this case peek_pipe was
>failing with an error, but the error was really due to PeekNamedPipe
>being used with the write end of a pipe.  So, it was failing with
>ACCESS_DENIED because GENERIC_READ was not one of the create options
>on the handle.  Anyway, I just added a check to see if peek_pipe
>was looking at the write end of a pipe.  I tried to check the
>device against FH_PIPEW, but unfortunately it is only set to
>the more generic FH_PIPE (not FH_PIPER, or FH_PIPEW).

That is fixable.

But, unless I'm missing something, you still are not specifically
checking only for exceptions as the ChangeLog indicated.

cgf