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Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2001 16:00:55 +0100
From: David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie>
To: yuri.viktarovich@philips.com
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Subject: Re: kern/30781: msgrcv call blocks other pthread's jobs
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On Thu, Oct 11, 2001 at 03:00:02AM -0700, yuri.viktarovich@philips.com wrote:
>  Anyway shouldn't it be some generic uniform way to wakeup processes/threads
>  on events working the same way on msgXXX, FDs, process start/end, other events?

I guess that would kqueue. Unfortunately, I don't think it understands
message queues yet, but it would probably be a useful addition. If it
were implimented then that could be used to provide proper threaded msgXXX
calls in the library.

	David.

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