Re: [libmicrohttpd] Remove PlibC from autotools files

[Christian Grothoff]

On 08/08/13 22:17, LRN wrote:
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> On 08.08.2013 23:00, Christian Grothoff wrote:
> > So given the choice of
> > duplicating the (messy) select loop and keeping it at arms length, I'd
> > rather not duplicate it.
> It can be duplicated, but with simplifications (basically, just in the
> code that you've committed initially, plus a dozen lines of code).

Well, I'm still in principle open for suggestions...

> > What I had hoped was that
> > somehow recent MinGW systems had fixed 'select', but I guess that was
> > overly optimistic on my part.
> Winsock's select() can't be fixed. You can eitehr wrap around it (with
> threads), or just go on and rewrite ws2_32.dll from the ground up
> (ReactOS, maybe?).

I guess there's ideas, bad ideas, terrible ideas, and then there is 
writing ws2_32.dll from the ground up for MHD. ;-)

> > The real question is if we can do
> > something to make select on W32 work nicely on MinGW, so we don't have
> > the busy waiting crap to begin with.
> Use threads. Really. That's the cleanest solution i know of.
> We could probably push it into plibc, if your objection is to the
> presence of extra threading in MHD itself, rather than the presence of
> extra threading in MHD+plibc combination...H-m-m-m...ndurner, what do
> you think?

Well, if you badly want threads, I guess as long as they are W32-only
maybe I'll live.  Would that eliminate the 100ms and the extra wake-ups?
Also, can we try to factor all of that code into (ideally) one big
#ifdef'ed function instead of having the logic embedded within the main 
MHD logic?

-Christian