[usocket-devel] Status of UDP on Windows?

[Elliott Slaughter]

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2010/3/22 Chun Tian (binghe) <binghe.lisp at gmail.com>

Strange ... for long time I thought there's no "select()" on win32, and I do
> see Erik (USOCKET author) use "WSAEventSelect" to implement the LispWorks
> version of WAIT-FOR-INTPUT-INTERNAL on win32. Now it seems that I was
> confused by another the speciality of "select()" function on win32:
>
> * On UNIX, select() can be used to wait for both networking sockets and
> disk file handlers,
> * On Windows, select() can only be used on networking sockets, so it's
> implemented by winsock library.
>
> What you found, seems show me a very direct way to have all you want done
> immediately: just use SB-ALIEN to export the "select()" for win32, and
> remove the reader macro around exist Unix version of WAIT-FOR-INPUT-INTERNAL
> for SBCL.
>
> Would you like a try on this approach?
>

I'll give it a shot.

Thanks (to both you and Erik) for the information.

-- 
Elliott Slaughter

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