On Tue, Mar 21, 2000 at 04:10:45PM +0000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Joshua N Pritikin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >> But MS's own C "stdio" runtime (which perl currently uses) cannot work with
> >> asynchronous IO.
> >
> >I see no compelling reason to suggest using MS's stdio. If possible,
> >I'd like to avoid as many compatibility layers as possible and talk
> >directly to low-level APIs.
>
> But when Event says "handle is readable" how is perl code going to
> do its IO to read it? - right now <$fh> or even sysread($fh,...)
> call MS stdio to do that - which will fail if Handles are in async mode.
>
> So we are stuck with stdio layer until such time as we rewrite PerlIO
> to use native Handle level APIs.
Oh! I didn't know that. At least Event can be forward thinking and use
handles internally...?
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