Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 02/10] main-loop: switch to g_poll() on POSIX hosts

[Paolo Bonzini]

Il 04/02/2013 16:07, Stefan Hajnoczi ha scritto:
>> > No idea why the windows version has been mixing g_poll() and select().
>> > I'd hope that this series kills select() for uniformity's sake, but the
>> > 00/10 subject and the commit msg for this patch indicate otherwise.
> This is why I CCed Fabien.  I left the g_poll-followed-by-select
> behavior.  It may be to do with Windows treating sockets different from
> other objects.  Paolo may know the answer, too.
> 

Yes, indeed.

Windows uses g_poll for HANDLEs and select for sockets.  All sockets are
configured to trigger an event handle when there is a change in the
socket availability, so g_poll exits and select is reexecuted.

Paolo