Re: Rationale for aligning data on even bytes in a Unix shell file?

On Tue, 29 Apr 2025 09:40:36 +0200
Bonita Montero <Bonita.Montero@gmail.com> wibbled:

Am 29.04.2025 um 09:25 schrieb Lawrence D'Oliveiro:
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If only ...
Note the limitations on Windows with
<https://docs.python.org/3/library/select.html>, just for example.

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Windows has I/O-completion ports which are more flexible than select().

No API which requires a seperate thread for each channel is "flexible".
The whole point of select and poll is they allow multiplexing in a single
threaded program. If you're going to use multiple threads you might as well
just sit in a blocking read() or write(), you don't need a seperate API at
all.