Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 15 Feb 2003 14:31:37 -0800 (PST) | From | Davide Libenzi <> | Subject | Re: Synchronous signal delivery.. |
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On Sat, 15 Feb 2003, James Antill wrote:
> > I would personally like it a lot to have timer events available on > > pollable fds. Am I alone in this ? > > Think of "timer events" as a single TCP connection, so you have... > > time X: empty > time X+Y: timed event "Arrives" > time X+Z: timed event "Arrives" > > ...at which point it's pretty obvious that if you "poll" the timer > event queue from anytime before X+Y it'll be empty, and anytime after > X+Y it'll be "full". There isn't any point in being able to distinguish > between the events X+Y and X+Z, you only need to know a timed event has > occurred so you should process all timed events that are needed. > At which point you just need to work out the difference between X and > X+Y, and pass that to poll/sigtimedwait/etc.
I'm sorry, I'm a bit confused. What's the point here ?
- Davide
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