From: Lyle Johnson <lyle@...>
Date: 2002-11-07T00:25:14+09:00
Subject: Re: Win32 support issues

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Dalibor Sramek wrote:

| I think it is about portability. If you use a specific Windows API you are
| not likely to run your program on UNIX.

I agree of course. My point was that it is just as absurd to expect
Win32API calls to work under Linux as it is to expect fork() to work
under Windows.

| On the other hand the concept of fork is common in many operating systems.

OK, I admittedly am only familiar with Unix and Windows operating systems.

| As for me I have problems with nonblocking I/O in Win32. Consider this:

<snip>

Non-blocking I/O is certainly available in the Windows operating system;
I seem to recall that their terminology for it is "overlapped" I/O, but
that's a side issue. But just because it's not implemented in the same
way that it is under Linux/Unix doesn't make it "wrong", any more than
the fact that CreateProcess() under Win32 is "wrong" but fork() under
Linux is "right".
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