From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Apr 7 13:13:29 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id NAA28655 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 7 Apr 1996 13:13:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA28649 for ; Sun, 7 Apr 1996 13:13:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id NAA00439; Sun, 7 Apr 1996 13:04:48 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199604072004.NAA00439@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: The F_SETOWN problem.. To: terry@safetynet.net (Terry Lambert) Date: Sun, 7 Apr 1996 13:04:48 -0700 (MST) Cc: louie@TransSys.COM, msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, roell@blah.a.isar.de, terry@lambert.org, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, jkh@time.cdrom.com, roell@xinside.com In-Reply-To: <199604071939.MAA00383@phaeton.artisoft.com> from "Terry Lambert" at Apr 7, 96 12:39:52 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I am Dyslexia Man this weekend (able to stop a speeding bullet before it leaves the criminals nug. 8-)). > Signals are not events. What is wrong with select() that makes it > unsuitable for your use? > > It's not like when the vent occurs you will interrupt or setal process event steal > quantum if you are not the running process. You will only set the > flag saying you are ready to run as a result of a wakeup on the > process sleep address, and *still* wait for then quantum on the > currently running process to expire. Then you have to compete with > all other processes on the system which *also* has their resources come d > free. > > So it's not like you get increased response time or anything. > > > Terry Lambert > terry@lambert.org > --- > Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present > or previous employers. > >