Re: PATCH: Support Windows in event-loop.c

[Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at false dot org>]

On Mon, Apr 25, 2005 at 08:17:37AM -0700, Mark Mitchell wrote:
> Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> 
> >>Does that seem like a workable plan to you?
> > 
> >I don't think we should add something this limited.
> 
> OK.  I'll go code up something select-like for Windows.
> 
> It will not be fully general because each new kind of event we want to 
> wait for will in general require a new API call, and I can't enumerate 
> what the eventual complete set might be.  (In UNIX, everything is a file 
> descriptor from this point of view; not true in Windows.)  However, it 
> will at least have the right interface.

Can't you borrow Cygwin's, or the one from Emacs that Eli referenced? 
No need to reinvent the wheel.

> I'm not personally aware of how to get anything other than a console 
> handle into this loop.  Can you give me a test procedure that should get 
> me something else, given the currently limited functionality on 
> (non-Cygwin) Windows?  Otherwise, I'd still prefer to add the generality 
> to select once I can test what I'm dealing with.

Try running gdb -i=mi piped to and from cat?

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