Date: Sun, 7 Apr 1996 13:04:48 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: terry@safetynet.net (Terry Lambert) 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 Subject: Re: The F_SETOWN problem.. Message-ID: <199604072004.NAA00439@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <199604071939.MAA00383@phaeton.artisoft.com> from "Terry Lambert" at Apr 7, 96 12:39:52 pm
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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.
>
>
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