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Not to mention the fact that you have to send/receive on sockets
and read/write on everything else so that an app has to check
the type of any handles it is passed so that it can use the
right calls.
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> Where is the joy in computing? Win32 is making me wonder.

been there, done that.  a repeat of SysVile (sic) R3:

    you could select on a socket or poll on a stream,
    but they would not interoperate

on NT you need to call WaitForMultipleObjects() iirc and
that doesn't work on WinShlock (sic) sockets etc, so you
have to use a threaded implementation.

for extra points, if the NT CreateSocket() call finds that you
are _not_ WinShlock (sic) the call fails and returns -6 iirc.

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