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From: "Russ Cox" <rsc@plan9.bell-labs.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] What is required of an open file to be used in ape/select?
Date: Tue,  9 Apr 2002 10:23:44 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5c6b9f52339d09f0f7245d66e3ed8693@plan9.bell-labs.com> (raw)

> I have a server in user space that I mount on /n/ed.  It contains
> a file, /n/ed/cmsg.  What behavior must /n/ed/cmsg have to be
> useful with ape/select?  I wish to read when a control message arrives
> at the file.

I think that all files are equal in the eyes of ape select.
(Of course, it could be that select is broken and doesn't
work on any files.  I assume you tried selecting on
/n/ed/cmsg and it didn't work.)

I'm not convinced you want to go down this path.  It's
almost always easier to use libthread and have separate
procs reading from fds and passing data pointers back to a
main proc.

Russ



             reply	other threads:[~2002-04-09 14:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-04-09 14:23 Russ Cox [this message]
2002-04-09 14:27 ` Boyd Roberts
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-04-09 18:46 forsyth
2002-04-09 14:29 bwc
2002-04-09 14:28 Russ Cox
2002-04-09 14:18 bwc

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