[gambit-list] How to monitor arbitrary file descriptors?

Hi,

I'm trying to wait for IO on some file descriptor.

The case at hand is not really relevant, it's a unix domain socket in this case. But the same issue would easily apply to other libraries too.

So far I found the gamsock library as a start. But this ties up the processor in a loop attempting to receive, learn EWOULDBLOCK and retry.

As I said, I'm not at all sold to the gamsock library or the API. I just want a thread to block on a raw file descriptor for IO. So maybe there is a way to create a port from a raw file descriptor? Or anything like that? How would it be done?

Thank you so much.

/Jörg