Re: redmond event loop

Uri Guttman wrote:
> 
> >>>>> "NI" == Nick Ing-Simmons <[email protected]> writes:
> 
>   NI> The Tk event loop works (after a fashion) on Win32 and is a
>   NI> self-contained XS module Tk::Event (Tk uses Tk::Event rather than
>   NI> vice versa). The snag is that 'fileevent' is seriously flawed on
>   NI> Win32 - e.g. you cannot wait for a 'listen' socket to be readable,
>   NI> nor on pipes, nor console. Basically only 'data' sockets work.
>   NI> The PerlIO stuff is intended to allow that to be fixed the same
>   NI> way Tcl/Tk fixed it - by using per-handle versions of read() etc.
>   NI> rather than C run-times flawed faking of UNIX semantics.
> 
> well, i need the socket stuff in particular. how does the redmond
> perl/tk handle that?

Preliminary testing shows that Perl's native select() works OK on Win32
sockets.  Perhaps Tk::Event could be used for everything else.