[SDL] select() portability

Sam Lantinga slouken at devolution.com
Fri Dec 11 09:42:00 PST 1998


> Our application is relyingheavily on "select()" to listen to several
> pipes/fd for events/messages.  Somehow I will have to listen
> to the SDL events with select()...

BTW, I don't know if you care, but this isn't portable to Win32.
The best way is to have a global (or several global) event queues,
and manage them with semaphores.  I think this is faster than pipes
and select(), but I'm not sure.

See ya!
	-Sam Lantinga				(slouken at devolution.com)

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