Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Chris M. Thomasson" Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: Rationale for aligning data on even bytes in a Unix shell file? Date: Thu, 1 May 2025 12:20:37 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 21 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Thu, 01 May 2025 21:20:38 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="49d9acf7dbf41e3cd9ef0374d9609b05"; logging-data="3432962"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19E02UwUrovHCpjLz5Jrjj+taPYnqEtfGo=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:vCOW9mifSPfc3d6Tmwqo0a4sV4Q= Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: Bytes: 2510 On 4/30/2025 8:51 PM, Bonita Montero wrote: > Am 30.04.2025 um 09:12 schrieb Lawrence D'Oliveiro: >> 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 >>>> , just for example. >>> >>> Windows has I/O-completion ports which are more flexible than select(). >> >> Except they have their own limitations >> . > > There's no discussion about IOCPs in this article. > Fwiw, I like IOCP. Its pretty nice and has a decent API. AcceptEx, ConnectEx, ect... Not that bad.