On Sun, 16 Jan 2000 15:37:16 GMT, Nick Ing-Simmons wrote:
>>Personally, I am not interested in
>>doing a port. No volunteer has stepped forward so perhaps we can strike
>>a deal with Microsoft to commission the work. At least I can parrot
>>from those more knowledgable that the Win32 model is *significant*
>>different than Unix.
>
>It may be so different that the current abstractions make no sense.
>
>I think we have a nasty case of chicken-and-egg here:
>
>Event is not finished till it can do Win32.
>Cannot do Win32 without threads.
>Threads seem to need Event ...
>
>Thus I suspect that what it really needs is ActiveState (e.g. Sarathy),
>to need something working ...
I haven't had time to do anything serious with the Event stuff, but
another thing that needs to happen before Windows can do Event-like
things properly is to rewrite the CRT abstraction layer (or at least
the parts that go into a wait state) to make them capable of
nonblocking waits/asynchronous events.
Let's keep this on the agenda for the 5.7.x development series.
Sarathy
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