From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jul 6 10: 7:23 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from sumatra.americantv.com (sumatra.americantv.com [208.139.222.227]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C96614CFB for ; Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:07:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jlemon@americantv.com) Received: from right.PCS (right.PCS [148.105.10.31]) by sumatra.americantv.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA06716; Tue, 6 Jul 1999 12:07:21 -0500 (CDT) Received: from free.pcs (free.PCS [148.105.10.51]) by right.PCS (8.6.13/8.6.4) with ESMTP id MAA15754; Tue, 6 Jul 1999 12:07:20 -0500 Received: (from jlemon@localhost) by free.pcs (8.8.6/8.8.5) id MAA27353; Tue, 6 Jul 1999 12:07:19 -0500 (CDT) Date: Tue, 6 Jul 1999 12:07:19 -0500 (CDT) From: Jonathan Lemon Message-Id: <199907061707.MAA27353@free.pcs> To: jdp@polstra.com, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: poll() vs select() X-Newsgroups: local.mail.freebsd-hackers In-Reply-To: References: Organization: Architecture and Operating System Fanatics Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In article you write: >In article <199907050103.SAA51932@bubba.whistle.com>, >Archie Cobbs wrote: >> >> A new, faster event notification system would be great. But don't forget >> to include *all* events, not just file descriptor readability/writability. > >Yes! Yes! Yes! (I agree.) There was another message in this thread indicating that this has the potential to grow creeping featuritis. :-) I've been thinking this over, and unlimited timers should be easy to do. I suppose you could fold signal delivery into an event notification mechanism as well. What other events are on the various wishlists out there? -- Jonathan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message