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Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2009 16:21:08 +0200
From: Adriano Verardo <a.verardo@tecmav.com>
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Subject: [9fans] A question about timeout
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I'm porting some Unix applications which implement a timeout on
read/write/accept/... calls using select().

In previous versions I did the same by signals but with problems
due to the behaviour  of the interrupted system call.

Select() is also used to choose among channels waiting for I/O.

How can I implement channel selection and secure timeouts
without using APE ?

Re-write some pieces is not a problem, I prefer a "pure" 8c implementation.


adriano