From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 26966 invoked by alias); 24 Apr 2005 22:18:12 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 26953 invoked from network); 24 Apr 2005 22:18:07 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO nevyn.them.org) (66.93.172.17) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 24 Apr 2005 22:18:07 -0000 Received: from drow by nevyn.them.org with local (Exim 4.50 #1 (Debian)) id 1DPpQU-0003ev-Mh; Sun, 24 Apr 2005 18:18:06 -0400 Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2005 22:18:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: Eli Zaretskii Cc: Mark Mitchell , gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: PATCH: Support Windows in event-loop.c Message-ID: <20050424221806.GA13942@nevyn.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: Eli Zaretskii , Mark Mitchell , gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com References: <200504210549.j3L5n2nP027728@sirius.codesourcery.com> <01c546a1$Blat.v2.4$e03250c0@zahav.net.il> <4267F742.2090108@codesourcery.com> <01c546b0$Blat.v2.4$c193bb40@zahav.net.il> <20050421205617.GA13146@nevyn.them.org> <01c54713$Blat.v2.4$5d0b4ea0@zahav.net.il> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <01c54713$Blat.v2.4$5d0b4ea0@zahav.net.il> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i X-SW-Source: 2005-04/txt/msg00300.txt.bz2 On Fri, Apr 22, 2005 at 11:13:51AM +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > How does the fact that only Windows provides WaitForMultipleObjects > > make it conceptually different from the fact that a bunch of systems > > provide poll, and a bunch don't? > > The difference is that `select' and `poll' are both Posix functions, > while WaitForMultipleObjects is MS-Windows specific. I guess I don't see this as a problem, while you do. In any case, since Chris has raised technical objections, I'm going to sit back and see what the next revision looks like. Hopefully it will make us both happier. -- Daniel Jacobowitz CodeSourcery, LLC