[tiraniddo]

The article also felt like Rust does it this way because all these other projects which came before it did it this way. Someone originated the technique and no one questions its validity, without seeing if there was an alternative method to achieve the same result.

I did spend about 20 minutes looking into this, it seems that there's an (admittedly undocumented) IOCTL which is in the Winsock headers (MSWsock.h) called SIO_EXT_POLL which seems to just use the poll device IO control code and so they could probably do this without messing with low-level AFD weirdness.

That said you'd think with Microsoft going all in on Rust, last I heard at least, that they could find a way to re-implement this code correctly. Hell, if they at least documented the IOCTL they could probably get co-pilot to do it for them ;)

[dblohm7]

> The article also felt like Rust does it this way because all these other projects which came before it did it this way. Someone originated the technique and no one questions its validity, without seeing if there was an alternative method to achieve the same result.

Precisely. As somebody with extensive experience porting cross-platform applications to run on Windows, it smells more to me like "everybody involved in this is actually quite ignorant about Windows," instead of (what I am assuming is the intended) "look at this crazy shit we had to do because Windows sucks."