11 Jun
2008
11 Jun
'08
3:02 a.m.
Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote:
On 2008 Jun 11, at 0:43, Simon Marlow wrote:
Unix semantics just isn't the right thing when it comes to non-blocking I/O. If only there were non-blocking read()/write() system calls, we'd be fine.
Have you considered using aio_read() and company?
aio is not exactly the right API either. The IO manager would have to call aio_suspend(), and then in order to receive events from the RTS over the special pipe we have set up, the IO manager would have to issue its own aio_read() on this FD. And I'm not sure whether you can use aio_suspend() to wait for network accept(), but I suspect not. There ought to be a single way to wait for various different types of event on Unix. Cheers, Simon