Re: Making Event work for Win32
[email protected] ("Mark Mielke")
| Newsgroups | perl.loop |
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On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 09:44:52AM +0000, "Graham Barr" wrote: > On Tue, Mar 21, 2000 at 02:57:57PM -0500, Mark Mielke wrote: > > In Win32, there is no such thing _really_ as a "file descriptor" (integer). > Don't confuse the issue of read/sysread with FILE*/integer. I know that is > what it is on UNIX but perl does not require it. The difference from > perl's perspective is buffered vs raw. > Just because MS does not have an integer file descriptor does not mean that > sysread cannot be done. Actually I never meant to suggest that I _liked_ the way it is now... :-) Just that if sysread() were changed, it would have to somehow emulate the errno conditions and such to keep code working. 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/