From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Nov 18 10:35: 5 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from devserv.devel.redhat.com (devserv.devel.redhat.com [207.175.42.156]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 968AE154A8 for ; Thu, 18 Nov 1999 10:34:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from zab@zabbo.net) Received: from localhost (zab@localhost) by devserv.devel.redhat.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id NAA26505 for ; Thu, 18 Nov 1999 13:34:27 -0500 X-Authentication-Warning: devserv.devel.redhat.com: zab owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 18 Nov 1999 13:34:27 -0500 (EST) From: Zach Brown X-Sender: zab@devserv.devel.redhat.com To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mbuf wait code (revisited) -- review? In-Reply-To: <199911181830.KAA86634@apollo.backplane.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Ugh. SIGIO is evil and should never be used. I tried using SIGIO for > tty I/O many years ago and it was a total disaster - it used an > unbelievable amount of cpu due to the signal overhead :-) blocked, queued real-time sigio with siginfo goop slurped sync via sigwaitinfo().. i think we've covered this :) > > I theoretically own the rights to BestWWWD if only I could find the piece > of paper. It shouldn't be an issue any longer with Best/Verio, I'll see > what can be done. I'm interested. -- zach - - - - - - 007 373 5963 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message