On 2016-07-08 16:33, Keith Packard wrote:
> Adam Jackson <[email protected]> writes:
>
>> Still not cool with committing code that we _know_ will break a
>> supported platform.
>
> Oh, right, windows. Hrm. Suggestions welcome, but I suspect the only
> workable solution will be to write some windows-specific code that does
> the wait for multiple objects thing. We can't use select because the
> fd_set data structure, while 'poll-like', has a fixed number of fds, and
> we can't use poll because it's broken.
The number of fds in fd_set isn't really fixed. FD_SETSIZE is user
controlled, so I can't imagine a problem with massaging fd_set into C99
variable-length-array form:
typedef struct xfd_set {
u_int fd_count;
SOCKET fd_array[];
} xfd_set;
and reallocing to taste.
Peter Harris
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