On Mon, 2011-08-22 at 16:37 -0400, Darryl L. Pierce wrote: > On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 12:46:43PM -0500, Steve Huston wrote: > > FWIW, WSAPoll is not available on XP; it was introduced at Vista. > > But the SOCKET type, which is used by WSAPoll as well as pre-existing > functions to retrieve data from a socket, does. And since what we're > looking for is what the appropriate return type on Windows should be, > I'm planning to do: > > #ifdef WIN32 > #include <winsock2.h> > typedef SOCKET QMF_IO_HANDLE; > #else > typedef int QMF_IO_HANDLE; > #endif
Can you use the winsock SOCKET type as a general windows HANDLE? ie is it valid as an input to WaitForMultipleObjects()? If you can then SOCKET is good enough for integration into an applications main loop if not then it isn't sufficient. Andrew --------------------------------------------------------------------- Apache Qpid - AMQP Messaging Implementation Project: http://qpid.apache.org Use/Interact: mailto:[email protected]
