From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 30 May 2010 20:40:44 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] compat: Add another rudimentary poll() emulation
Message-ID: <20100530204044.GB32728@progeny.tock>
In-Reply-To: <201005302119.30340.j6t@kdbg.org>

Johannes Sixt wrote:

> It cannot work on msysgit because
> 
> - on Windows, select() works only for sockets, but we poll() on pipes, too;
> 
> - in our emulation layer, fds that are sockets must be unpacked with 
> _get_osfhandle() before they can be passed to FD_SET() because (as Paolo has 
> pointed out) FD_SET() must be populated with handles, not fds.

Thanks for the explanation.  Alas.

>From <http://www.suacommunity.com/man/2/select.2.html> I get the
impression that FD_SETSIZE on Interix might not be so small after all
(good).  Apparently older versions of Interix (5.3?) do not obey
timeouts properly, so the poll() in compat/poll.c should probably use
usleep() instead (meh).

Anyway, I leave it to developers on that platform to take it from here
if they so wish.

Ciao,
Jonathan