Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: Desperately missing a working "pselect()" or similar... | Date | Mon, 8 Oct 2001 17:44:24 +0100 (BST) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> Hmmm... would you say the "siglongjmp" method is better than the "self-pipe" > method for a select on both file descriptors and signals too?
siglongjmp doesnt have to make any syscalls so intuitively I'd say it ought to be more efficient
> Then somebody mentioned using signals to wake up processes > for frequent events wouldn't be a good idea at all - why?
Beats me
Alan
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