Date: Wed, 13 Nov 1996 14:05:14 -0700 (MST) From: Thomas Roell <roell@crab.xinside.com> To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> Cc: roell@crab.xinside.com, hackers@freebsd.org, jkh@time.cdrom.com Subject: Re: Is our ASYNC I/O support for ttys broken? Message-ID: <199611132105.OAA18130@xeno.xinside.com> In-Reply-To: <199611131734.EAA11083@godzilla.zeta.org.au> References: <199611131734.EAA11083@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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In your message of 14 November 1996 you write: > >Problem is that I really don't want to spawn subprocesses for > >io-stuff. On the other hand asynchronous input is really mandatory if > >you have a heavily loaded box and run CDE and/or OpenGL/PEX apps. > > Is this for the X server? It's already in the background and doesn't > have a controlling terminal (at least for XFree :-) so no additional > processes are required for handling one mouse. If the ioctl's would work as descrribed there would be no problem, but as I mentioned already, they don't. - Thomas -- Denver Office THOMAS ROELL /\ Das Reh springt hoch, +1(303)298-7478 X INSIDE INC / \/\ das Reh springt weit, 1801 Broadway, Suite 1710 / \ \/\ was soll es tun, Denver, CO 80202 roell@xinside.com / Oelch! \ \ es hat ja Zeit.
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