From: stefan_trcek@abas.de (Stefan Trcek)
Subject: Re: sockets, timer and windows events
21 Jan 1997 09:59:49 -0800
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I don't know to much about cygwin, but for native NT it is suggested by
M$ to make a blocking recv on a socket, this means n sockets = n+1
threads (one for gui).  I use this approach.

Probably the select isn't implemented very efficiently.  I know that the
socket descriptors ready for incoming data (in select) are stored in an
array, while in unix they are stored as bit vector.

You may have a look at WaitForMultipleObjects or
MsgWaitForMultipleObjectsEx (no problem if you have VC++ installed). 
The latter may wait for "I/O completion" - whatever this means under NT.

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Stefan Trcek
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