Messages in this thread |  | | | From | kuznet@ms2 ... | | Subject | Re: Changes in the sockets: SIGIO handling | | Date | Wed, 8 Mar 2000 20:50:46 +0300 (MSK) |
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Hello!
> These aren't correct. (Correct for the sentence you quoted, but not its > context). I should have said: If you've got a partial read's worth of > data pending, you should return immediately -- without sleeping.
Reduction of work is the only sense of these options. 8)
> ?? I don't understand. This affects read() somehow?
write() also needs signals and has the same problem.
> :-) Fair enough; I hope you can see that there is a way to reduce the > over-signalling without breaking applications.
? I do not understand you. There are still no applications to break, SVR4 does not oversignal. It was you who propose to promote status of oversignaling from a linux bug to required feature.
Alexey
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