On Tue, 29 Jan 2008, Nathan Ingersoll wrote:

>> 2. pselect breaks the win32 port. what is the best way to handle this?
>> implement our own pselect for win32 using select or use "#ifdef's" ?
>
> I believe Vincent is working on a library of win32 work-arounds, maybe
> he can propose an alternative call for that case. If not, then the
> pipe method described previously may need to be implemented for win32,
> or we live with a race condition by emulating pselect like glibc does.

the win32 api does not support signals ala unix. so there is no pselect in 
the win32 api. I guess that I can just ignore the signals and just wrap 
select around pselect for the win32 code by ignoring the signal 
parameters. I've not looked at the patch yet. So i can not comment a lot 
right now.

Also, in case it interest you, about pselect:

http://lwn.net/Articles/176911/

Vincent

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