Re: [Chicken-hackers] [PATCH] Avoid context switch during TCP errno reporting

[John Cowan]

Peter Bex scripsit:

> There's only posix's "file-select" left.  I'm not sure what to do
> with it.  Probably it needs to be replaced with a select/poll
> checking implementation as well.

I agree.

> However, posixwindows doesn't have an implementation for file-select
> at all, while select() certainly is available on Windows (the scheduler
> uses it too, after all!).

IIRC, the trouble with select() on Windows is that it has nothing to say
about fds that are associated with non-sockets, and indeed Cygwin jumps
through enormous hoops to make its use seamless.

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