Re: select()/poll() on Win32: possible funding, but is it insane?

On Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 07:03:21AM -0500, "Horsley Tom" wrote:
> > First fork() emulation and now select()?  If we are not careful in ten
> > years or so NT/W2K/W2010 will be almost as useful as UNIX was 
> > in mid-1980's.
> Too late :-). WaitForMultipleObjects() on win32 is already *infinitely*
> more useful than select() or poll() since you can wait on all kinds
> of handles, not just file descriptors you are doing I/O on, but also
> semaphores, process handles for processes you are waiting to finish, etc.
> If there is one thing win32 does well, it is event loops. (Oh, and if
> you want the windows messages involved as well, use
> MsgWaitForMultipleObjects).

Too bad it can only wait on 32 or 64 handles, eh?

Also it doesn't work for pipes, and if memory serves, it doesn't really
work for sockets.

mark

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