i know PERLIO is in the wings and should solve the event loop problem on winblows. my current impression is that win32 select does work for async socket connection and socket and process i/o. but you can't use stdio with it. what about if you only use sysread/syswrite? do those map to stdio on win32 to handle binmode/text issues? my idea is that if the sysread/write calls would work with select, it would be possible to build a decent event loop that works on multiple platforms assuming you limit i/o to those calls. it would be a very simple event loop with just socket connection and read/write and timer support. signals would be unix only. so this is aimed mostly at nick. what is your take on this idea? thanx, uri -- Uri Guttman --------- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------- http://www.sysarch.com SYStems ARCHitecture, Software Engineering, Perl, Internet, UNIX Consulting The Perl Books Page ----------- http://www.sysarch.com/cgi-bin/perl_books The Best Search Engine on the Net ---------- http://www.northernlight.com
