From: Johannes Sixt <johannes.sixt@telecom.at>
Date: Sat, 01 Mar 2008 19:24:23 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 20/40] Windows: A rudimentary poll() emulation.
Message-ID: <200803012024.23286.johannes.sixt@telecom.at>
In-Reply-To: <200803011648.38296.robin.rosenberg@dewire.com>

On Saturday 01 March 2008 16:48, Robin Rosenberg wrote:
> Den Thursday 28 February 2008 21.49.36 skrev Johannes Sixt:
> > On Thursday 28 February 2008 10:36, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> > > 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.
> >
> > I tried but I failed. If you can show me code where
> > WaitForMultipleObjects works on handles that MSVCRT.DLL's open() created,
> > I'll gladly accept it!
>
> Have you checked _get_osfhandle? There's a warning though in the
> knowledgebase with number 99173, though. There's also another function that
> works the other way, _open_osfhandle.

Handwaving you are! This stuff is well-known. Show me code.

-- Hannes