Date: Tue, 6 Jul 1999 12:07:19 -0500 (CDT) From: Jonathan Lemon <jlemon@americantv.com> To: jdp@polstra.com, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: poll() vs select() Message-ID: <199907061707.MAA27353@free.pcs> In-Reply-To: <local.mail.freebsd-hackers/199907061636.JAA15322@vashon.polstra.com> References: <local.mail.freebsd-hackers/199907050103.SAA51932@bubba.whistle.com>
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In article <local.mail.freebsd-hackers/199907061636.JAA15322@vashon.polstra.com> you write: >In article <199907050103.SAA51932@bubba.whistle.com>, >Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com> 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
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