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DJMaze · 04-20-2006, 02:26 PM

poll waits for some event on a file descriptor but, windows has no file descriptors. This because things like stdout are not available in the win32 api.
Tell us what you want to poll and someone could explain how to do it.

04-20-2006, 02:26 PM	#2 (permalink)
DJMaze Senior Contributor Join Date: Mar 2005 Posts: 733	poll waits for some event on a file descriptor but, windows has no file descriptors. This because things like stdout are not available in the win32 api. Tell us what you want to poll and someone could explain how to do it.