Re: [boost] Re: Secret handles and descriptors: Enemies of reuse, conspirators with frameworks.

From: Aaron W. LaFramboise (aaronrabiddog51_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-09-12 22:11:57

Aaron W. LaFramboise wrote:
> On UNIX, a demultiplexor probably will be a wrapper for select().  On
> Windows, it might be a wrapper for WaitForMultipleObjectsEx().  I'd
> expect it to be able to handle pipes, sockets, files,
> signals/exceptions, and microsecond timers.

I forgot to add: it should also be able to handle thread and process
events, such as child process termination.