On 6/27/07, Robert Roessler wrote: > > sayan@crans.org wrote: > > I believe the OCaml idiom for this is to use Unix.select with empty > lists for all THREE of the descriptor lists... and this does work on > Windows. Note, on Unix at least, you need to wrap the call to select in an exception handler, since select can be interrupted, at which point the call throws an exception. y