What is the best epoll/kqueue/select equvalient on Windows?

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Published on 2008-09-15T21:20:26Z Indexed on 2010/03/20 21:21 UTC
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event-notification

What is Windows' best I/O event notification facility?

By best I mean something that ...

doesn't have a limit on number of input file descriptors
works on all file descriptors (disk files, sockets, ...)
provides various notification modes (edge triggered, limit triggered)

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