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Re: WSAPoll() anyone?

From: Gisle Vanem via curl-library <curl-library_at_lists.haxx.se>
Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2022 07:33:51 +0200

Daniel Stenberg wrote:

> Is there a compelling reason to switch over to WSAPoll()?
>
> It took a long time before we found that poll issue the last time. If there is an edge case still where they aren't
> compatible, I can imagine it won't be easy to reproduce but might introduce strange hard-to-debug side effects down the
> line.

I would just like to hear if other Windows users here have
an opinion or what experience they have with 'WSAPoll()'.
It can't b that bad still?

> Since we don't know in which Windows version the function was fixed, we might still have curl users with broken WSAPoll
> implementations - even if more recent versions work better.

That would be a problem, yes.

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