Re: Other Win32 TODO items?

Claudio Natoli wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> Following Andrew Dunstan's recent post, thought I'd mention a few other
> things which I think will need to be considered for the Win32 port. I've run
> into these in trying to get a single-process, multi-threaded version of
> postgres to run on Win32. Clearly, if core developers concur, I don't mind
> putting my hand up to provide patches for some or all of them... but I'll
> need advice from core for (at least) the last two.
>
> In rough order of annoyance:
>
> * ioctlsocket_ret
> - is not initialized to 1 (at least in the WIN_32 code I started
> with!)
> - ok, so big deal!
>
> * select(0,NULL,NULL,NULL,&delay) doesn't, under Win32
> - replace with Sleep for win32?

I have added this to the Win32 project page:

# Problems with select()

* Using as timer does't work, select(NULL, , timeout), use Sleep()?
* Only works on sockets, not file descriptors as returned by pipe()
* Must properly deal with signals

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