Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: SCO: "thread creation is about a thousand times faster than on native Linux" | Date | Thu, 24 Aug 2000 20:23:34 +0100 (BST) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> If we have no threads this is not a problem. So can you explain to me > where the threads are in this example? I'm too dense to get your > telegraphy, have some pity.
Assuming we queue signals to arbitary threads then a single thread causing all the open/close/read events would queue open/close/read events onto arbitary signal queues. So thread 1 might see open open and thread 2 see close read-ready
> Of course, you are violating POSIX, but only for a process that expects > to get non-POSIX semantics. Ordinary processes don't see this.
But they can trigger it too. The signal to all members case for a couple of specific cases is the one thats cheap to evaluate and handle
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