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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Rationale for aligning data on even bytes in a Unix shell file?
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2025 07:25:16 -0000 (UTC)
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On Tue, 29 Apr 2025 07:37:58 +0200, Bonita Montero wrote:

> ... but the Win32-APIs are more mature than the Posix-APIs ...

If only ...

Note the limitations on Windows with
<https://docs.python.org/3/library/select.html>, just for example.