Peter Bex scripsit:

> I'll have to think about this, maybe we can come up with a way to
> avoid paying the price on UNIX for the shit Windows implementation.
> Better would be to have a *proper* implementation on Windows, but
> nobody has stepped up to actually overhaul the entire code to make
> that possible, so far.

A huuuuuuge amount of the code in the Cygwin DLL is concerned with
faking Posix semantics for select(); I've heard that it's the single
most complex thing in the library.

-- 
John Cowan          http://www.ccil.org/~cowan        co...@ccil.org
Unless it was by accident that I had offended someone, I never apologized.
        --Quentin Crisp

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