[gnutls-dev] Re: GnuTLS for Windows

[Simon Josefsson]

Ralf Angeli <angeli at caeruleus.net> writes:

> * Simon Josefsson (2006-07-16) writes:
>
>> Alas, Windows' select() only works on sockets, not file descriptors.
>> gnutls-cli uses select to find out whether there is data on stdin and
>> from the server, and it is the stdin part that doesn't work.  I think
>> there are some solutions to this, but it's not clear to me how to
>> implement them yet.
>
> Unfortunately this is beyond me.
>
>> Note that the GnuTLS library itself does not use select, so it doesn't
>> have this problem.
>
> Hm, but for using GnuTLS with Gnus (for TLS-enabled SMTP connections)
> using the library itself is not an option IIUC.

Right.  Hopefully I can solve this soon.  I have some ideas that I'm
trying out now...

/Simon