Re: Synchronous signal delivery..

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Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org> writes:

> On Sat, 15 Feb 2003, James Antill wrote:
>
> > > I would personally like it a lot to have timer events available on
> > > pollable fds. Am I alone in this ?
> >
> > Think of "timer events" as a single TCP connection, so you have...
>
> I'm sorry, I'm a bit confused. What's the point here ?

 Just that although you could have each timer event on separate
pollable fds it's much the same as having separate events for 1
byte, 2 bytes, and 4 bytes available on a network socket (Ie. you are
much better off keeping that all in user space).

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