Re: Desperately missing a working "pselect()" or similar...

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Mon, 8 Oct 2001 17:44:24 +0100 (BST)


> Hmmm... would you say the "siglongjmp" method is better than the "self-pipe"
> method for a select on both file descriptors and signals too?

siglongjmp doesnt have to make any syscalls so intuitively I'd say it
ought to be more efficient

> Then somebody mentioned using signals to wake up processes
> for frequent events wouldn't be a good idea at all - why?

Beats me

Alan

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