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Re: PATCH: Support Windows in event-loop.c

On Thu, Apr 21, 2005 at 05:01:49PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>On Thu, Apr 21, 2005 at 11:56:02AM -0700, Mark Mitchell wrote:
>>Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>>>Is it perhaps possible to write an emulation of `select' that would
>>>handle file handles as well
>>
>>Well, Cygwin has select, so it is *possible*.  But, it's not easy, and
>>it doesn't really map terribly well onto what Windows provides.
>
>cygwin's select is pretty complicated but most of that is due to thread
>safety considerations.  If there are only a limited number of types of
>devices being selected, it should be possible to mock something up
>without only marginal pain.

Oops.  Duh.  Make that "with only marginal pain".

cgf
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