Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1998 11:22:36 +1100 (EST) From: John Birrell <jb@cimlogic.com.au> To: reg@shale.csir.co.za (Jeremy Lea) Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: poll() for pthreads? Message-ID: <199811050022.LAA24698@cimlogic.com.au> In-Reply-To: <19981105005122.A13038@shale.csir.co.za> from Jeremy Lea at "Nov 5, 98 00:51:22 am"
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Jeremy Lea wrote: > The CVS logs show that poll() is being hidden in libc_r because a > wrapper has not been written... However, this is way out of my league. > Does anyone have such a wrapper in their local tree, or is it a hard > thing to write? And would looking at the NSPR thread-safe wrapper for > poll() help? To implement poll(2) properly, the internal use of select(2) as the blocking mechanism needs to be changed to use poll. It's not just a matter of a wrapper, since you can implement true poll functionality with select. I thought Netscape were using their own threads. -- John Birrell - jb@cimlogic.com.au; jb@freebsd.org http://www.cimlogic.com.au/ CIMlogic Pty Ltd, GPO Box 117A, Melbourne Vic 3001, Australia +61 418 353 137 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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