Re: Linux and Windows compatible Client/Server apps using UDP and TCP/IP without any components?

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From: Chad Z. Hower aka Kudzu
Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2004 12:59

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"Eugene Mayevski [SecureBlackbox]" <mayevski@eldos.org> wrote in
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> No, they require using select(). In Windows this scenario is exactly the

Yes, thats polling.

> same. This is how we build most socket operations. Asynchronous Windows 
> IO is unreliable and has some differences between documented and factual
> behaviour.

Async in Windows is implemented quite differently because it also support 
windows messages. Its very rare in Windows to do async and use select.

Select is also limited to 64 handles.


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