Re: [PATCH] implement full-blown select(2) for winsock

[Paolo Bonzini]

> the stdio module [...]
> does not pull in the fopen module, even though the fopen module
> makes fopen function work *the way anyone including stdio.h would
> expect them work*.

I disagree on the "anyone" part.  I never missed the fopen module, but
I'm sure everyone who wrote cross-platform socket code did direct some
@#$% at whoever invented Winsock.

(In fact, there are two parts in lib/fopen.c: one is a fix for an
obscure bug in some implementations; the other is a hack that does not
really have anything to do with fopen, and may actually be undesirable
in some circumstances because it impedes access to files named /dev/null
under Windows -- a confusing but legitimate scenario.  Note that the
undesirable behavior falls on the user's shoulders, not on the
programmer, hence a big difference with winsock.c).

The case of sys_select is even more special, because the header provides
basically a single function, like poll (where the module includes both a
header and an implementation).

> I hope my thoughts are clearer now.  I think your code is great, and I
> will use it in my projects, but my concern is maintaining the separation
> between header-gnulib-modules and function-gnulib-modules.

I understood that, and I appreciate discussion.

Paolo