On Thursday 28 February 2008 10:36, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > Johannes Sixt wrote: > > This emulation of poll() is by far not general. It assumes that the > > fds that are to be waited for are connected to pipes. The pipes are > > polled in a loop until data becomes available in at least one of them. > > If only a single fd is waited for, the implementation actually does > > not wait at all, but assumes that a subsequent read() will block. > > For the future, would it be better to first use WaitForMultipleObjects, > and then use PeekNamedPipe to find which handles have data on it? > That's how the mingw port of GNU Smalltalk does it. I tried but I failed. If you can show me code where WaitForMultipleObjects works on handles that MSVCRT.DLL's open() created, I'll gladly accept it! -- Hannes -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html