Date: Sat, 13 Feb 1999 07:08:38 -0500 (EST) From: Howard Goldstein <hgoldste@mpcs.com> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: portability of shm, mmap, pipes and socket IPC Message-ID: <14021.27462.556760.465144@penny.south.mpcs.com> In-Reply-To: <199902122345.QAA26318@usr01.primenet.com> References: <199902121146.GAA02357@cally.south.mpcs.com> <199902122345.QAA26318@usr01.primenet.com>
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Terry Lambert writes: > > Realtime signals would help almost as much, perhaps in a more portable > > way. > > man setitimer 'Sir, may I please have some more?' I use it...I always feel dirty when I have setitimer signal a clumsy monolith that is itself in many ways like the one that deals with the aftermath of a select(). More timers, a la posix realtime signals (p1003B? I'm sure I'm citing the wrong posix id) would be cleaner, and would make it easier to write pthreaded applications. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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