From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Feb 13 04:09:10 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id EAA01275 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Sat, 13 Feb 1999 04:09:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from bbs.mpcs.com (bbs.mpcs.com [209.101.88.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id EAA01270 for ; Sat, 13 Feb 1999 04:09:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from hg@penny.n2wx.ampr.org) Received: from pickle.n2wx.ampr.org (cc1017255-a.srst1.fl.home.com [24.3.122.197]) by bbs.mpcs.com (8.8.8/8.8.8/MPCS spamzap) with ESMTP id HAA11146; Sat, 13 Feb 1999 07:08:51 -0500 Received: (from root@localhost) by pickle.n2wx.ampr.org (8.9.2/8.8.2/n2wx) id HAA25761; Sat, 13 Feb 1999 07:08:49 -0500 (EST) Received: from penny.n2wx.ampr.org (penny.n2wx.ampr.org [172.16.0.5]) by pickle.n2wx.ampr.org (8.9.2/8.9.2/n2wx) with ESMTP id HAA25746; Sat, 13 Feb 1999 07:08:40 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from hg@n2wx.ampr.org) Received: (from hg@localhost) by penny.n2wx.ampr.org (8.9.2/8.8.8/n2wx) id HAA03346; Sat, 13 Feb 1999 07:08:38 -0500 (EST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14021.27462.556760.465144@penny.south.mpcs.com> Date: Sat, 13 Feb 1999 07:08:38 -0500 (EST) From: Howard Goldstein To: Terry Lambert , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: portability of shm, mmap, pipes and socket IPC In-Reply-To: <199902122345.QAA26318@usr01.primenet.com> References: <199902121146.GAA02357@cally.south.mpcs.com> <199902122345.QAA26318@usr01.primenet.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.62 under Emacs 19.34.1 Organization: disorganization Reply-To: hgoldste@bbs.mpcs.com Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Terry Lambert writes: > > Realtime signals would help almost as much, perhaps in a more portable > > way. > > man setitimer 'Sir, may I please have some more?' I use it...I always feel dirty when I have setitimer signal a clumsy monolith that is itself in many ways like the one that deals with the aftermath of a select(). More timers, a la posix realtime signals (p1003B? I'm sure I'm citing the wrong posix id) would be cleaner, and would make it easier to write pthreaded applications. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message