From: sos AT prospect DOT com DOT ru (Sergey Okhapkin)
Subject: RE: Select.cc patch
1 Apr 1997 09:44:27 -0800
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Original-To: Sergey Okhapkin <sos AT prospect DOT com DOT ru>,
        "'Giovanni Maruzzelli'"
	 <maruzz AT matrice DOT it>
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Giovanni Maruzzelli wrote:
> Hi Sergey, Hi all,
>
> I've seen in the patch (I've not get the sources for CDK) that there was
> also a problem with the accept call.
>
> What's the problem and is this fixed?
>

The problem is simple - in win32 environment we may use 
WaitForMultipleObjects() api call to do "select" on sockets/handles, but it 
works only for connected sockets, and doesn't work for 
"connecting"/"listening" sockets. The whole file select.cc is avoiding of 
this problem :-)


--
Sergey Okhapkin
Moscow, Russia
Looking for a job.


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