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Re: How to select on a win32 handle?


On Oct  9 12:04, Peter Ekberg wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 09, 2006 at 10:55:18AM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >           To implement a POSIX select function which allows to select on
> > any descriptor one needs to implement it specificially for each known,
> > resp. useful file type.  Naturally this won't work with a generic
> > Windows handle since Cygein doesn't know what it represents.  So Cygwin
> > is unable to provide a matching select function.
> 
> I assumed that cygwin as a last step issued a WaitFor... on the underlying
> win32 handles associated with the fds in its select implementation. Perhaps
> this assumption was wrong? But if not, it would be neat to somehow add an
> extra win32 handle to the array, that would break out of the cygwin select
> when the win32 handle is signaled.

Take a look into winsup/cygwin/select.cc.  There's no generic way to
select on an arbitrary Windows handle without knowledge about its task.

Selecting manually, for instance by creating a thread which calls WFMO,
is the only useful choice, IMHO.


Corinna

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