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

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-09-13 08:15:06

"Aaron W. LaFramboise" <aaronrabiddog51_at_[hidden]> writes:

> 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.

Thanks.

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Dave Abrahams
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