Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [lkml] RE: self piping and context switching | From | Alan Cox <> | Date | Sat, 13 Sep 2003 18:10:06 +0100 |
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On Sad, 2003-09-13 at 03:56, Iker wrote: > More specifically, I was wondering if the write to the pipe or the call back > into poll involved anything that might prompt the scheduler to replace the > thread in this scenario.
Unless it happens to cause page faults or fill up the pipe nothing in paticular. Sending a message to yourself down a pipe is pretty standard in event based programs as a way of turning a signal from asynchronous event and thus nuisance to handle into a message.
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