# Re: \[PATCH v2\] compat: Add another rudimentary poll() emulation

- From: Johannes Sixt \<hidden\>
- Date: 2016-06-15 22:48:52 
- List: git
- Page: https://ratatoskr.run/git/2016/06/7466264
- Thread: https://ratatoskr.run/git/2016/06/7465679/t.md

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On Sonntag, 30. Mai 2010, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> I would be interested to hear whether this works on msysgit and Interix.

It cannot work on msysgit because

- on Windows, select() works only for sockets, but we poll() on pipes, too;

- in our emulation layer, fds that are sockets must be unpacked with 
_get_osfhandle() before they can be passed to FD_SET() because (as Paolo has 
pointed out) FD_SET() must be populated with handles, not fds.

-- Hannes
```