Re: OT: Windows (Was: Re: Open Source does not mean easily

On 07 Jan 2025 15:54:48 GMT
Nicolas George <nicolas$george@salle-s.org> wibbled:

Dan Cross, dans le message <vljbvv$gl9$1@reader2.panix.com>, a �crit�:

This, however, does not follow.  I don't see why "poll" is
strictly required for IO concurrency.

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Well, try to do implement anything non-trivial involving I/O concurrency,
including timeouts, clients causing other clients to abort, etc., with
the common denominator of POSIX threads and come back telling us how you
managed that.
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I tried, and stopped trying using threads for I/O concurrency.

For some mad reason it seems to be the way to do it in Windows and also Java
IIRC.