From: Lothar Scholz <mailinglists@...>
Date: 2003-09-25T09:15:50+09:00
Subject: Re: When threads block

Hello gabriele,

Wednesday, September 24, 2003, 5:39:20 PM, you wrote:

gr> The problem should be related to windows' select().
gr> On *nix IO stuff is transparently put in a select, and ruby takes care
gr> of giving a little time to every thread when select gives them output.
gr> On windows this won't work cause select() just accepts socket
gr> descriptor. I wonder if these works in python. 
gr> And is WaitForMultipleObjects() useful someway ?

It's a joke right ?

Every serious windows programming books warns you to not use 'select'
on a window plattform. Using WASSelect is the normal way. It is much
better then the UNIX API and integrates perfect into the windows
environment. But a new implementation should not use them either.
The best is to use asynchron system calls that calls back when data
is available, it is much faster then the LINUX ip stack implementation.

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