From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Nov 13 13:05:50 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id NAA16156 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 13 Nov 1996 13:05:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from fog.xinside.com (fog.xinside.com [199.164.187.39]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id NAA16137 for ; Wed, 13 Nov 1996 13:05:39 -0800 (PST) Received: (from smap@localhost) by fog.xinside.com (8.7.6/8.7.3) id OAA13761; Wed, 13 Nov 1996 14:05:35 -0700 (MST) X-Authentication-Warning: fog.xinside.com: smap set sender to using -f Received: from xeno.xinside.com(199.164.187.221) by fog.xinside.com via smap (V1.3) id sma013759; Wed Nov 13 14:05:14 1996 Received: (from roell@localhost) by xeno.xinside.com (8.7.5/8.6.12) id OAA18130; Wed, 13 Nov 1996 14:05:14 -0700 (MST) Date: Wed, 13 Nov 1996 14:05:14 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <199611132105.OAA18130@xeno.xinside.com> From: Thomas Roell To: Bruce Evans Cc: roell@crab.xinside.com, hackers@freebsd.org, jkh@time.cdrom.com Subject: Re: Is our ASYNC I/O support for ttys broken? In-Reply-To: <199611131734.EAA11083@godzilla.zeta.org.au> References: <199611131734.EAA11083@godzilla.zeta.org.au> Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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.