Re: [PATCH v2] git daemon: avoid waking up too often

On 7/23/08, Johannes Sixt [off-list ref] wrote:

This makes porting this beast to Windows practically impossible because we
 cannot have a poll() implementation that waits both on a listening socket
 and a pipe. :-(

I have worked around such problems in the past by having a thread
whose job it is to read from the pipe and simply write it to a socket.
 The trick works for "console" objects, too, which in win32 are even
less agreeable than pipes.

(In case your life wasn't disgusting enough already today :))

Alternatively, you could use something like socketpair() instead of a
pipe for this purpose.  Naturally, Win32 helps you out here by somehow
forgetting to include socketpair() in winsock, although it's sort of
easy to emulate.

Have fun,

Avery