From: Brian Dessent <brian@dessent.net>
Date: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 23:17:44 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 20/40] Windows: A rudimentary poll() emulation.
Message-ID: <47C89298.F6F8253D@dessent.net>
In-Reply-To: <5d46db230802291347u5f286dadw6b532abf82c0cff7@mail.gmail.com>

Govind Salinas wrote:

> http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa365603(VS.85).aspx
> 
> which suggests you can pass these handles to ReadFile and if you include an
> OVERLAPPED struct in the call, it will return an event handle to wait on which
> you can then use to wait.

That only applies if the handle has been opened with
FILE_FLAG_OVERLAPPED.

Brian