While we're discussing the non-conformance of Window's select, these 2 errors:
select.error: (10093, 'Either the application has not called WSAStartup, or WSAStartup failed')
select.error: (10022, 'An invalid argument was supplied')
are about the only errors you'll get from select on Windows. Where select would return a socket in the errors list on *nix, on Windows it will come out as readable / writeable, and it's the socket send / rcv that will find out what the problem is. Each version of winsock gets a bit better, but (for example), selecting for write in Win9x-era winsock is essentially a busy-wait. You'll get the socket back immediately, go to write and get the Window's EWOULDBLOCK error. but-heck-it-multitasks-ly-y'rs -- Gordon http://www.mcmillan-inc.com/