Mail Archives: cygwin-developers/1998/08/03/08:09:43
[oops , sorry - XEmacs keybindings in eudora]
At 10:43 03/08/98 -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>I've rewritten select from scratch recently, so all of those mallocs/frees
>are gone. Now there are new ones, but hopefully there are fewer.
Presumably the new version includes sergey's /dev/windows implementation?
>It still uses thread destruction as a method for determining when a handle
>has become "signalled", but it would be easy to change this behavior. I
>wrote select with that possibility in mind, in fact.
>
>This version stands a chance of being in the next public net release. If
>there is a great hue and cry, I'll change it to use events as signallers
>and try to keep the thread around if possible. The bookkeeping for doing
>this kind of thing gets hairy when you have to think about using select
>from multiple threads, however.
I'm not convinced about the need for this anyhow. select() is usually used
as an alternative to muti-threading.
andy
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