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From kuznet@ms2 ...
SubjectRe: Changes in the sockets: SIGIO handling
DateWed, 8 Mar 2000 20:50:46 +0300 (MSK)
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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