From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Oct 25 15:11:39 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from shell.webmaster.com (unknown [209.133.28.73]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9CA3C37B4D7 for ; Wed, 25 Oct 2000 15:11:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from whenever ([216.152.68.2]) by shell.webmaster.com (Post.Office MTA v3.5.3 release 223 ID# 0-12345L500S10000V35) with SMTP id com; Wed, 25 Oct 2000 15:11:08 -0700 From: "David Schwartz" To: "Jonathan Lemon" , "Simon Kirby" Cc: "Dan Kegel" , , Subject: RE: kqueue microbenchmark results Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 15:11:37 -0700 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) In-Reply-To: <20001025165626.B87091@prism.flugsvamp.com> Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > Now, next time around the loop, we get a notification for an event > when there is no data to read. The application now must be prepared > to handle this case (meaning no blocking read() calls can be used). > -- > Jonathan If the programmer never wants to block in a read call, he should never do a blocking read anyway. There's no standard that requires readability at time X to imply readability at time X+1. DS To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message