[Gllug] OT: Replacement for select()

[salsaman]

Mick Farmer wrote:

>Dear GLLUGer,
>
>In my C programs I use select() to find a file descriptor that
>has pending input.  On UNIXes this works with both file
>descriptors and sockets.
>
>I want to port my programs to Windows and their
>implementation of select() only works with sockets.  Does
>anyone know how I can achieve the same result?
>
>I would be happy to poll the devices if this is the only
>alternative.
>
>Regards,
>
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The file gmain.c from glib has a poll implementation (g_poll) for win32 
which seems to handle files and sockets. You could try cutting and 
pasting from there.

Not that I encourage windows development of course.

Gabriel.
http://lives.sourceforge.net

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