Subj : Re: Threading and Timeouts
To   : comp.programming.threads
From : Giancarlo Niccolai
Date : Wed Jul 20 2005 03:44 pm

MC wrote:

> Thanks to both for your replies!  I probably should have mentioned
> that I'm not using sockets--I'm using the Windows Internet (WinINet)
> API so, although I don't know much about select()/poll(), I'm guessing
> those are not an option for me.  I do like the suggestion of just
> letting the synchronous call complete normally after the timeout.
> I'll try that.

Select works with WinSocks too, although with a couple of minor, irrelevant
differences (i.e. the first parameter, that is, maxfd + 1, is ignored).

Bests, Giancarlo.

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