+ * select()-able pipes emulated using Winsock
+ */
+static int pipe (int fd[2])
+{
+ SOCKADDR_IN addr;
+ int addrlen = sizeof (addr);
+
+ SOCKET l = socket (PF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, IPPROTO_TCP), a,
+ c = socket (PF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, IPPROTO_TCP);
+ if ((l == INVALID_SOCKET) || (c == INVALID_SOCKET))
+ goto error;
+
+ memset (&addr, 0, sizeof (addr));
+ addr.sin_family = AF_INET;
+ addr.sin_addr.s_addr = htonl (INADDR_LOOPBACK);
+ if (bind (l, (PSOCKADDR)&addr, sizeof (addr))
+ || getsockname (l, (PSOCKADDR)&addr, &addrlen)
+ || listen (l, 1)
+ || connect (c, (PSOCKADDR)&addr, addrlen))
+ goto error;
+
+ a = accept (l, NULL, NULL);
+ if (a == INVALID_SOCKET)
+ goto error;
+
+ closesocket (l);
+ //shutdown (a, 0);
+ //shutdown (c, 1);
+ fd[0] = c;
+ fd[1] = a;
+ return 0;
+
+error:
+ if (l != INVALID_SOCKET)
+ closesocket (l);
+ if (c != INVALID_SOCKET)
+ closesocket (c);
+ return -1;
+}
+
+#undef read
+#define read( a, b, c ) recv (a, b, c, 0)
+#undef write
+#define write( a, b, c ) send (a, b, c, 0)
+#undef close
+#define close( a ) closesocket (a)
+#endif /* WIN32 */
+
+/**
+ * Returns the readable end of a pipe that becomes readable once termination
+ * of the object is requested (vlc_object_kill()).
+ * This can be used to wake-up out of a select() or poll() event loop, such
+ * typically when doing network I/O.