>If it's necessary then it should be added, but someone already
>posted here that it works fine on Win2k (so I expect Win2k3 works too,
>and it probably even works on older WinNT). It might still have issues
>on Win98 (and derivatives like WinME) and possibly on WinXP.
If it works on W2K it will in all probability work on anything since, which
would be XP and W2K3, since that is the procession of release names for the
same OS code base. It would probably work on NT 4, which was an earlier
version of much of the same base, before a lot of Win98 flash and trash was
grafted on to the UI level and device installer level.
Win95/98/ME was a different pseudo-OS that didn't quite understand the concept
of multitasking (think early Mac 'cooperative multitasking'), and things that
require waits could work, um, oddly, there. However, I'd expect a simple
Select to work on anything past Win95, and probably even on that.
In any case select() is implemented by a library glue layer on top of the
actual stuff that deals with files, and that glue layer is essentially common
on all of the MS platforms at this point. While I can't say it isn't buggy,
the bugs are likely the same on any platform.
Loren
