Re: Making Event work for Win32
[email protected] ("Mark Mielke")
| Newsgroups | perl.loop |
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On Tue, Mar 21, 2000 at 01:43:30PM -0000, "Moore, Paul" wrote: > From: Joshua N Pritikin [mailto:[email protected]] > > 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. > I'd expect to be *able* to use low-level IO as long as the user has a way to > get a HANDLE value (Win32::CreateFile or some such). However, if Event is > handed a Perl filehandle, it needs to be able to go filehandle -> > PerlIO/stdio handle -> OS handle, so that it can pass it to Event. No > problem, both routes are catered for (now that I have Nick's code snippet). Just a note... Win32::APIFile or some such has calls like ReadFile() that take a handle. mark -- [email protected]/[email protected]/[email protected] __________________________ . . _ ._ . . .__ . . ._. .__ . . . .__ | SIR Tools (7H12) |\/| |_| |_| |/ |_ |\/| | |_ | |/ |_ | Nortel Networks | | | | | \ | \ |__ . | | .|. |__ |__ | \ |__ | Ottawa, Ontario, Canada One ring to rule them all, one ring to find them, one ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them... http://mark.mielke.cc/