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Async console I/O is not supported on Microsoft Windows #54

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Expand Up @@ -555,6 +555,19 @@ $ composer require clue/stdio-react:^1.0

More details and upgrade guides can be found in the [CHANGELOG](CHANGELOG.md).

Note that *Microsoft Windows is not supported*.
Due to platform inconsistencies, PHP does not provide support for reading from
standard console input without blocking.
Unfortunately, until the underlying PHP feature request is implemented (which
is unlikely to happen any time soon), there's little we can do in this library.
A work-around for this remains unknown.
Your only option would be to entirely
[disable interactive input for Microsoft Windows](https://github.com/clue/psocksd/commit/c2f2f90ffc8ebf8233839ba2f3553f2698930125).
However this package does work on [`Windows Subsystem for Linux`](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Subsystem_for_Linux)
(or WSL) without issues. We suggest [installing WSL](https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/commandline/wsl/install_guide)
when you want to run this package on Windows.
See also [#18](https://github.com/clue/php-stdio-react/issues/18) for more details.

## Tests

To run the test suite, you first need to clone this repo and then install all
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