Re: [bug-gawk] Adding an API hook to enable a select extension

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Fri, 31 May 2013 10:33:13 -0400
> From: "Andrew J. Schorr" <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden
> 
> > For Windows, that's not true: one can write 'select' for Windows that
> > will work for files and devices as well.  It just takes more work,
> > because the version of 'select' provided by the OS only works for
> > sockets.  You can see an example of that in gnulib.
> 
> Thanks.  If we get close to committing this, then I guess we should
> explore how to make it work under MinGw.  Have you looked at what code
> changes would be necessary to get the read_timeout feature to work
> in MinGW?

I already have it working for sockets, as part of enabling the
networking features.  Extending that to files and pipes would need to
have a replacement 'select' in pc/gawkmisc.pc.