Non-blocking input on windows, like select in Unix

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Jonathan Fine a écrit :
> Paul Rubin wrote:

> As I recall, some posts to this list say that Windows provides
> non-blocking i/o for sockets but not for files.

No, Windows does provide non-blocking I/O for regular files, but it's a 
completely different mechanism than the one used by winsock. You'll have 
to use win32all and enter the Dark Side, that is Windows APIs.

You don't want to do that if you're not already familiar with 
CreateProcess, CreatePipe, overlapped structures, WaitForSingleObject & 
al...