Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1999 10:45:44 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no> Cc: Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>, Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no>, Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE>, Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: portability of shm, mmap, pipes and socket IPC Message-ID: <199902111845.KAA93962@apollo.backplane.com> References: <199902110308.LAA60544@spinner.netplex.com.au> <xzpsocdhv1o.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
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:Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au> writes:
:> I implemented it on FreeBSD back in 1996 or so but gave up in the end.
:> The biggest offender was the libc RPC code, but there were a constant
:> supply of things that mysteriously failed. It was a real nightmare trying
:> to track down and locate them.
:
:That's what glimpse is for. I'm willing to do the work if someone
:provides the patches for select().
:
:DES
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:Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@flood.ping.uio.no
I don't think too many people would appreciate anybody screwing around
with select's operational semantics. Linux backed out their change to
match MOTROTW, we definitely should not be going off playing see-saw.
BSD's select() has *never* modified tv and it is never going to modify tv.
-Matt
Matthew Dillon
<dillon@backplane.com>
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