Re: Win32 port

Uri Guttman <[email protected]> writes:
>>>>>> "NI" == Nick Ing-Simmons <[email protected]> writes:
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>  NI> Uri Guttman <[email protected]> writes:
>  >> 
>  >> try looking at how perl does select (4 arg) under winblows. 
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>  NI> It only works for Sockets in blocking mode. It is near useless.
>
>is it select or winblows that is useless?

select. It maps to the select() which is part of old Win16 Sockets API.
As a result it can only be used on sockets, not pipes, Console or 
other things UNIX folk would expect.
Another mess is that O_NONBLOCK type access which is extemely useful
for TCP sockets (select() says there is a byte, but I want a line) only
works if socket is in a mode which makes select() non-functional.
Add to this that C runtime used by perl interacts badly with both the 
above and you have a right mess.

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Nick Ing-Simmons <[email protected]>
Via, but not speaking for: Texas Instruments Ltd.