Is there way to make file descriptor non blocking in windows?

Question

I want to port my code from linux to windows. It is something like this:

void SetNonBlocking( int filehandle )
{
    int fhFlags;

    fhFlags = fcntl(fileha         


        

Answer 1

The Windows API function CreateNamedPipe has an option to make the handle non-blocking. (See MSDN). Also see the MSDN article on Synchronous and Overlapped I/O. BTW, you can directly compile POSIX compliant code on Windows using MinGW or Cygwin and thus avoid the headache of porting.