Christophe Mertz <mertz@[...].com>  writes:

>  Hello,
>  
>  we are intensively using perl/tk (and especially Tk::Zinc) and a
>  software bus called ivy (www.tls.cena.fr/products/ivy). Both are open
>  software and are working pretty well. However, when porting ivy-perl on
>  windows (in fact there was nothing to port, as the perl flavor of ivy is
>  fully written in perl), we encounter a problem.
>  
>  It seems due to a limitation in the Tk::fileevent module. The man page
>  says:
>  
>  "
>  BUGS
>  On windows platforms fileevent is limited in the types of filehandles
>  that behave correctly. Making filefhandles non-blocking is only
>  implemented on a subset of UNIX platforms (see the Tk::IO manpage).
>  "
>  
>  This bug on windows plateforms is not very clear in the man page. 
>  Which types of filehandles behave correctly?

As far as I know it's sockets.

Regards,
        Slaven

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