Christoph Bauer wrote:
> ...
> I did this, but on windows with two programs communicating over
> a pipe this isn't enough. select on windows and on a pipe doesn't
> work. Therefore I wrote a stub for PeekNamedPipe():

"Select on windows" certainly does work... and why not use a socket 
pair, just as one might on a *nix system?  That way, it will work on both.

And the fact that socketpair has been left out of the Windows version 
of the Unix module is not an impediment - it is easy to write a useful 
implementation in OCaml (I can supply one if needed).

Robert Roessler
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