Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 23 Oct 2002 15:22:16 -0700 (PDT) | From | Davide Libenzi <> | Subject | Re: async poll |
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On Wed, 23 Oct 2002, John Gardiner Myers wrote:
> Davide Libenzi wrote: > > >Why would you want to have a single fd simultaneously handled by two > >different threads with all the locking issues that would arise ? > > > You would not want this to happen. Thus you would want the poll > facility to somehow prevent returning event N+1 until after the thread > that got event N has somehow indicated that it has finished handling the > event.
We're again looping talking about threads and fd being bounced between threads. It seems that we've very different opinions about the use of threads and how server applications should be designed. IMHO if you're thinking of bouncing fds among threads for their handling you're doing something somehow wrong, but this is just my opinion ...
- Davide
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