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You can. I guess Shamrock may have meant that you may run into data arrival issues in single threaded/process oriented code with blocking descriptors.

To avoid this you can either use non-blocking I/O, or polling, or both.

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Yeah, non-blocking I/O was what I used on the Echo server.

Thanks all for the support

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