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On 6/27/07, Robert Roessler <roessler@rftp.com> wrote:
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> sayan@crans.org wrote:
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> I believe the OCaml idiom for this is to use Unix.select with empty
> lists for all THREE of the descriptor lists... and this does work on
> Windows.


Note, on Unix  at least, you need to wrap the call to select in an exception
handler, since select can be interrupted, at which point the call throws an
exception.

y

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On 6/27/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Robert Roessler</b> &lt;<a href="mailto:roessler@rftp.com">roessler@rftp.com</a>&gt; wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<a href="mailto:sayan@crans.org">sayan@crans.org</a> wrote:<br><br>I believe the OCaml idiom for this is to use Unix.select with empty<br>lists for all THREE of the descriptor lists... and this does work on<br>Windows.</blockquote>
<div><br>Note, on Unix&nbsp; at least, you need to wrap the call to select in an exception handler, since select can be interrupted, at which point the call throws an exception.<br><br>y<br></div><br></div><br>

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