Re: question about portability

[Erik Mouw <J A K Mouw its tudelft nl>]

On Wed, 02 Feb 2000 11:00:12 +0100, lists@nuts.netplace.de wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 31, 2000 at 10:20:47PM -0800, Timothy M. Shead wrote:
>> I use GTK+ extensively for cross-platform work under Linux & Windows, and
>> Tor's port works extremely well.
>> 
> I use it too, but I noticed that all "gdk_input_add" stuff is not
> correctly working. Also I heard that there a problems with select()
> (which most likely cause the problem with gdk_input_add".
> 
> I am really looking to get the gdk_input_add working (I do spawn a lot
> of subprocesses)... 
> Perhaps its because Tor used a MS-compiler for his port? Using cygwin
> should allow selects just nicely.

It's because select() is a Unix specific way to see if a file descriptor
is ready. Windows has its own incompatible way of doing it. "Those who
don't understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it, poorly." (don't know
whose quote this is).


Erik

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