Tk::fileevent limitation on windows palteform

Hello,

we are intensively using perl/tk (and especially Tk::Zinc) and a
software bus called ivy (www.tls.cena.fr/products/ivy). Both are open
software and are working pretty well. However, when porting ivy-perl on
windows (in fact there was nothing to port, as the perl flavor of ivy is
fully written in perl), we encounter a problem.

It seems due to a limitation in the Tk::fileevent module. The man page
says:

"
BUGS
On windows platforms fileevent is limited in the types of filehandles
that behave correctly. Making filefhandles non-blocking is only
implemented on a subset of UNIX platforms (see the Tk::IO manpage).
"

This bug on windows plateforms is not very clear in the man page. 
Which types of filehandles behave correctly?

Does someone know a way to handle non-blocking filehandle in perl/tk on
windows plateforms? 

(on windows, we are using active state perl)



Any help appreciated


-- Christophe Mertz

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