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- > Dear hackers,
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- > I have an essential winsock problem : what will happen when my
- > program keeps running(never return) while monitoring FD_READ by using
- > WSAsynchSelect(), can winsock.dll or the real TCP/IP stacks
- > receive the incoming packets ? My doubt is if the real IP-layer
- > receives packets by interrupt or from Windows 'pseudo' multitasking ?
- > If it's the latter, of course , not to mention it.
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- > thanks,
- > Franklin.
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- You will have to yield back to Windows somehow if you use WSAAsyncSelect().
- The Winsock would have to somehow post message to you to notify you the
- arrival of the data. It can do it if you are hogging the Windows system.
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- William
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- william@sybase.com
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