Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 23 Jun 1998 19:09:22 +1000 | From | Richard Gooch <> | Subject | Re: Thread implementations... |
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Richard Gooch writes: > Dean Gaudet writes: > > On Tue, 23 Jun 1998, Richard Gooch wrote: > > > > > What exactly do you mean "you're told when it completes"? > > > > You write/read a buffer, and control returns immediately. Some > > unspecified time later, when the write/read completes, your program is > > informed either via a completion port (NT), or via a function you passed > > to the kernel (VMS). > > Can these NT completion ports multiple events from multiple FDs?
Make that: "Can these NT completion ports multiplex events from multiple FDs?"
> > > Or you could use my library... > > > > I believe you said in a previous post that you don't care about NT. > > I don't care about it in the context of a solution for a UNIX > system. If there is an NT solution, but it doesn't exist in UNIX, then > it doesn't help me, or others who want to get the best out of their > UNIX systems.
I should also say that I have no problem with making use of some native NT mechanism where appropriate, *for NT*. My library makes the best use of whatever the OS supplies.
Regards,
Richard....
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