Re: Tk::fileevent limitation on windows palteform

Christophe Mertz <[email protected]> writes:

> 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?

As far as I know it's sockets.

Regards,
        Slaven

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