From: Lothar Scholz <mailinglists@...>
Date: 2003-09-26T22:25:31+09:00
Subject: Re: When threads block

Hello gabriele,

>>Using WASSelect is the normal way.
gr> Is'nt WSASelect even stuck to FD_SET==array of sockets?

No. Its working with GUI messages.

>> It is much
>>better then the UNIX API and integrates perfect into the windows
>>environment.

gr> Sure it does, but well, ruby is mostly developed on unix :/

But it's a "very high level language" and it fallsback to extremely
low level plattform dependent network code. That's a design decision i don't
understand. It's okay to wrap this, but higher modules like the HTTP,
FTP protocol shouldn't be based on a 'select' like model.


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