Re: [PATCH v2] git daemon: avoid waking up too often

From: Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@gmail.com>
Date: Jul 23, 2008, 19:26 UTC
Message-ID: <32541b130807231226m73fcc874ub72f69adeb5d26c3@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <4886D503.7030106@viscovery.net>

On 7/23/08, Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net> wrote:

> This makes porting this beast to Windows practically impossible because we
>  cannot have a poll() implementation that waits both on a listening socket
>  and a pipe. :-(

I have worked around such problems in the past by having a thread
whose job it is to read from the pipe and simply write it to a socket.
 The trick works for "console" objects, too, which in win32 are even
less agreeable than pipes.

(In case your life wasn't disgusting enough already today :))

Alternatively, you could use something like socketpair() instead of a pipe for this purpose. Naturally, Win32 helps you out here by somehow forgetting to include socketpair() in winsock, although it's sort of easy to emulate.

Have fun,

Avery