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From: Jamie Lokier <lk@tantalophile.demon.co.uk>
To: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
Cc: David Schwartz <davids@webmaster.com>,
	Jonathan Lemon <jlemon@flugsvamp.com>,
	chat@FreeBSD.ORG, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: kqueue microbenchmark results
Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 17:20:06 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20001027172006.A28504@pcep-jamie.cern.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20001025172702.B89038@prism.flugsvamp.com> <NCBBLIEPOCNJOAEKBEAKCEOPLHAA.davids@webmaster.com> <20001025161837.D28123@fw.wintelcom.net>
In-Reply-To: <20001025161837.D28123@fw.wintelcom.net>; from bright@wintelcom.net on Wed, Oct 25, 2000 at 04:18:37PM -0700

Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> > If a programmer does not ever wish to block under any circumstances, it's
> > his obligation to communicate this desire to the implementation. Otherwise,
> > the implementation can block if it doesn't have data or an error available
> > at the instant 'read' is called, regardless of what it may have known or
> > done in the past.
> 
> Yes, and as you mentioned, it was _bugs_ in the operating system
> that did this.

Not for writes.  POLLOUT may be returned when the kernel thinks you have
enough memory to do a write, but someone else may allocate memory before
you call write().  Or does POLLOUT not work this way?

For read, you still want to declare the sockets non-blocking so your
code is robust on _other_ operating systems.  It's pretty straightforward.

-- Jamie
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       reply	other threads:[~2000-10-27 15:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20001025172702.B89038@prism.flugsvamp.com>
     [not found] ` <NCBBLIEPOCNJOAEKBEAKCEOPLHAA.davids@webmaster.com>
     [not found]   ` <20001025161837.D28123@fw.wintelcom.net>
2000-10-27 15:20     ` Jamie Lokier [this message]
2000-10-27 16:03       ` Alfred Perlstein
     [not found] <200010260610.XAA11949@usr08.primenet.com>
2000-10-26 18:08 ` Terry Lambert
     [not found] <20001024225637.A54554@prism.flugsvamp.com>
     [not found] ` <39F6655A.353FD236@alumni.caltech.edu>
     [not found]   ` <20001025010246.B57913@prism.flugsvamp.com>
     [not found]     ` <20001025112709.A1500@stormix.com>
     [not found]       ` <20001025122307.B78130@prism.flugsvamp.com>
     [not found]         ` <20001025114028.F12064@stormix.com>
     [not found]           ` <20001025165626.B87091@prism.flugsvamp.com>
     [not found]             ` <39F7F66C.55B158@cisco.com>
2000-10-26 16:50               ` Jonathan Lemon
2000-10-27  0:50                 ` Alan Cox
2000-10-27  1:02                   ` Alfred Perlstein
2000-10-27  1:10                   ` Jonathan Lemon
2000-10-27  1:32                     ` Alan Cox
2000-10-27  1:46                       ` Alfred Perlstein
2000-10-27 16:21                       ` Dan Kegel
2000-10-27 16:42                         ` Alfred Perlstein
2000-10-27 23:08                         ` Terry Lambert
2000-10-28  0:24                           ` Dan Kegel

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