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Subject: Re: async socket stuff 
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>
>You mean like sockets, files and pipes being represented by "file" 
>descriptors? Yep. Unix has been using that model for years. 

Show me how to select on:

* A child process terminating
* An event object that I create in my program being signaled by one of my
  threads.
* I/O completing on a socket or fd.
* A critical section freeing up.
* A mutex becoming availible.
* New files being added to a directory.
* The size of a file changing.
etc, etc, etc.

all in a single select call.

I fully understand what select can and cannot do, and it doesn't even come
close to giving all of the flexibility NT gives you.

>  Rich
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Justin T. Gibbs
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