Re: [PATCH 20/40] Windows: A rudimentary poll() emulation.

> Johannes Sixt wrote:
> > This emulation of poll() is by far not general. It assumes that the
> > fds that are to be waited for are connected to pipes. The pipes are
> > polled in a loop until data becomes available in at least one of them.
> > If only a single fd is waited for, the implementation actually does
> > not wait at all, but assumes that a subsequent read() will block.
>
> For the future, would it be better to first use WaitForMultipleObjects,
> and then use PeekNamedPipe to find which handles have data on it?
> That's how the mingw port of GNU Smalltalk does it.