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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Rationale for aligning data on even bytes in a Unix shell file?
Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2025 07:12:33 -0000 (UTC)
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On Tue, 29 Apr 2025 09:40:36 +0200, Bonita Montero wrote:

> Am 29.04.2025 um 09:25 schrieb Lawrence D'Oliveiro:
> 
>> If only ...
>>
>> Note the limitations on Windows with
>> <https://docs.python.org/3/library/select.html>, just for example.
> 
> Windows has I/O-completion ports which are more flexible than select().

Except they have their own limitations
<https://docs.python.org/3/library/asyncio-platforms.html>.