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From: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>
To: Niall Smart <njs3@doc.ic.ac.uk>
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Subject: Re: Preemptive threads
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If you've compiled with libc_r and the option THREAD_SAFE
then you probably did get a non-blocking call to read.. a lot of that
stuff is handled "under the covers".

(just a guess) 

Julian
On Sat, 31 Jan 1998, Niall Smart wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Are the threads in 3.0-current supposed to be pre-emptive yet?  I was
> just playing around with a multithreaded TCP echo server and it cannot
> accept more than one connection simultaneously.  Also, the first call
> to read on a socket returns EAGAIN even though its not non-blocking.
> 
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Niall
>