On Tue, Mar 21, 2000 at 01:43:30PM -0000, "Moore, Paul" wrote:
> From: Joshua N Pritikin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > 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.
> I'd expect to be *able* to use low-level IO as long as the user has a way to
> get a HANDLE value (Win32::CreateFile or some such). However, if Event is
> handed a Perl filehandle, it needs to be able to go filehandle ->
> PerlIO/stdio handle -> OS handle, so that it can pass it to Event. No
> problem, both routes are catered for (now that I have Nick's code snippet).
Just a note... Win32::APIFile or some such has calls like ReadFile()
that take a handle.
mark
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