Re: Making Event work for Win32

Joshua N Pritikin <[email protected]> writes:
>> 
>> But MS's own C "stdio" runtime (which perl currently uses) cannot work with  
>> asynchronous IO.
>
>I see no compelling reason to suggest using MS's stdio.  If possible,
>I'd like to avoid as many compatibility layers as possible and talk
>directly to low-level APIs.

But when Event says "handle is readable" how is perl code going to 
do its IO to read it?  - right now <$fh> or even sysread($fh,...)
call MS stdio to do that - which will fail if Handles are in async mode.

So we are stuck with stdio layer until such time as we rewrite PerlIO
to use native Handle level APIs.

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