Timeout on read()?

[Paul Duffin]

David Bolen wrote:
> 
> Donn Cave <donn at u.washington.edu> writes:
> 
> > Probably true, and the same is still true for BeOS.  But on the
> > bright side, select() is the best way to go on UNIX.  And optimistically,
> > we can hope that the notion of file descriptor as a valuable abstraction
> > will catch on
> 
> I wish - this has to be way up there for me on my list of frustrating
> things about Windows development.  I mean, for just about everything
> they did build this abstraction (e.g., most other resources being
> standard HANDLEs).  Why couldn't they have implemented Winsock as a
> filesystem (as they did their own WNet stuff) and thus have it return
> handles compatible with the all the other handles in the Windows
> universe?
> 
> Oh well - hope isn't high for me - they've had plenty of time, and I
> don't think this changes in W2K either.
> 

Doesn't the async package hide all of these details.