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in thread Checing presence of input on standard input in non-blocking way, sans user interaction

This doesn't seem to work properly on Win32/Activestate though - I believe I've seen something to the effect that IO::Select doesn't work on non-sockets on W32

Actually, the root of the problem is the select implementation available on Windows that only supports TCP sockets.

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