There is - it involves using gnulib. But that is only for C and C++ - I have no idea how this translates over to C# So if I understand well, are you saying that if I use gnulib windows version via C# (pinvoke, this kind of magic) I will have access to poll function ? Intersting, I'll take a look. I hope gnulib if published via a dll under windows, if so, I'm pretty sure I can use it with C# regards Arnaud

---------------------------------------- De: "Eric Blake" <eblake@redhat.com> Envoyé: lundi 31 janvier 2011 19:37 A: arnaud.champion@devatom.fr Objet: Re: [libvirt] Raising events for testing On 01/30/2011 05:21 AM, arnaud.champion@devatom.fr wrote:

Hi,

One thing I need to understand, in the callback python or c samples, the fileDescriptor is on a socket or on a pipe ?

Libvirt uses gnulib to guarantee that poll() works on file descriptors; all socket operations are magically mapped by gnulib to behave like file descriptors, so that you don't have to worry about the (less-useful) restrictions of windows poll() only working on sockets.

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Okay I have understand the use and mean of poll (pollfd... bla...bla...bla...) I have also discover that there is no Win32 equivalent which work with a file descriptor (unix way...).

There is - it involves using gnulib. But that is only for C and C++ - I have no idea how this translates over to C#. -- Eric Blake eblake@redhat.com +1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org