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Date:      Sun, 4 Jul 1999 21:56:35 -0400 (EDT)
From:      "Brian F. Feldman" <green@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com>
Cc:        Christopher Sedore <cmsedore@mailbox.syr.edu>, peter@netplex.com.au, green@unixhelp.org, jlemon@americantv.com, wayne@crb-web.com, hackers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: poll() vs select()
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.9907042155090.66085-100000@janus.syracuse.net>
In-Reply-To: <199907050103.SAA51932@bubba.whistle.com>

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On Sun, 4 Jul 1999, Archie Cobbs wrote:

> Christopher Sedore writes:
> 
> A new, faster event notification system would be great. But don't forget
> to include *all* events, not just file descriptor readability/writability.
> I.e., signal delivery, child exit notification, maybe even support for
> an arbitrary number of (independent) timers. And make the events independent
> from each other -- to avoid problems like when an application completely
> hangs for 90 seconds when it calls gethostbyname().

An async thread to do hostname lookups would be great! Wouldn't be too
hard in libc_r, would it? But in regular apps, setitimer and sigsetjmp()
would be a solution.

> -Archie
> 
> ___________________________________________________________________________
> Archie Cobbs   *   Whistle Communications, Inc.  *   http://www.whistle.com
> 

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