[Libevent-users] libevent on windows: select() fails

[Bas Verhoeven]

Shiqing Fan wrote:
> Hi all,
Hi,
>
> I'm testing Libevent 1.3 with VS2005 on Windows.
>
> The same problem below there happens on my machine, select() always 
> returns -1. Does anyone know the reason?  Sorry for polling this old 
> mail up, I just found someone has asked the same question that I got, 
> but no answer.  Thanks a lot.
I believe the problem was that select() does not work on file 
descriptors on Windows, as it does on *NIX systems.

Cheers,
Bas Verhoeven
>
>
> Regards,
> Shiqing
>
>> But when I run 'event-test', it seems to die at select():
>>
>>    V:\dev\libevent-svn\WIN32-Prj\event_test\Debug>event_test.exe
>>    [msg] libevent using: win32
>>    [debug] event_add: event: 002DFF1C, EV_READ   call 00433CE0
>>    [debug] win32_insert: adding event for 916
>>    [debug] win32_dispatch: select returned -1
>>
>> Any idea why it would do that, and what I can do to fix it? I would 
>> really like to start using libevent on windows.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Bas Verhoeven
>>
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