On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 06:19:57PM -0400, Andrew Stitcher wrote: > The problem is that the closest thing to a Unix file descriptor on > Windows is a HANDLE. But SOCKETs are not HANDLEs. > > If all your application wants to do is receive data from sockets and > multiplex that then a windows SOCKET is fine. > > But given you're writing a library which will be used by some arbitrary > application I don't see how you can assert that the only thing this > unknown application will be allowed to do in parallel in it's main loop > with qmf is other network operations.
Okay, I'm getting the intent on yours and Steve's side now. I was still focused more on providing the same capability as *nix on the Windows side. -- Darryl L. Pierce, Sr. Software Engineer @ Red Hat, Inc. Delivering value year after year. Red Hat ranks #1 in value among software vendors. http://www.redhat.com/promo/vendor/
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