Re: socket handling patch for glib-win32

[John Ehresman <jpe wingide com>]

Tor Lillqvist wrote:
>  > but until MS Windows starts supporting the BSD socket API,
>
> Umm, you mean WinSock isn't close enough? IMHO, the differences in API
> are rather minor and easy to work around.

My suggestion in the bug commentary for #147392 is to deprecate the use 
of watches with blocking sockets.  This would remove the major problem 
with watching sockets on win32.  It should be done on all platforms to 
encourage portability.

I don't think glib needs to grow its own socket wrappers, but I could be 
wrong.

John