From: Roger Pack <rogerdpack2@...>
Date: 2011-06-11T02:05:04+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:36946] Re: Windows sockets and CRT fds

Attempt 2 (perhaps using quotation marks in my message caused it to
kill the spam scanner?)

> and curb (which uses libcurl), the socket is created by an external
> library, and the handle is the SOCKET, not the CRT fd.

So is there currently any known way to pass a (library's socket) into
select in a ruby extension in windows? �I suppose one could just
surround a read call in a thread blocking region and get a similar
effect, they just couldn't do that for more than one socket per thread
I suppose...

ref: https://github.com/brianmario/mysql2/issues/142

Thanks!
-roger-