troubles with caps

Joerg Sonnenberger joerg at britannica.bec.de
Thu Apr 29 22:56:10 PDT 2004


On Thu, Apr 29, 2004 at 10:27:10AM -0700, Chris Pressey wrote:
> This would be very, very handy, if for no other reason than quite a bit
> of existing software, like GTK, makes the assumption that select() is
> how you're going to wait on events.

There are multiple possibilities here. If we provide a generic
trampoline code similiar to the signal stack [we should need this for
threading anyway], select() can return with EINTR or so. Also the
self-piping trick could be used.

Joerg





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