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Re: WSAPoll() anyone?

From: Howard Chu via curl-library <curl-library_at_lists.haxx.se>
Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2022 11:04:17 +0100

Gisle Vanem via curl-library wrote:
> 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?

That doesn't sound like a reason to make a change. If it ain't broke don't fix it.
>
>> 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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