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From: Richard Jones <rich@annexia.org>
To: Eijiro Sumii <eijiro_sumii@anet.ne.jp>
Cc: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] select (or polling) on in_channel?
Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2005 15:30:40 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050405143037.GB13493@furbychan.cocan.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050405.093439.68549116.eijiro_sumii@anet.ne.jp>

On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 09:34:39AM -0400, Eijiro Sumii wrote:
> I rather want to avoid multi-threading if select could be easy enough,
> because the former is often too tricky due to the possibility of
> deadlocks and races.

You can implement threads on top of select / poll semantics.  You also
need to have a stack switching operation (such as makecontext /
swapcontext, setjmp / longjmp, or a bit of asm).  Proof by example:
http://www.annexia.org/freeware/pthrlib

Rich.

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-04-05 14:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-03-31 23:28 Eijiro Sumii
2005-04-01 10:59 ` [Caml-list] " Gerd Stolpmann
2005-04-01 13:37   ` Eijiro Sumii
2005-04-03 14:43 ` Christoph Bauer
2005-04-04 20:24   ` Eijiro Sumii
2005-04-04 21:29     ` Eijiro Sumii
2005-04-05  5:49     ` Alex Baretta
2005-04-05 13:34       ` Eijiro Sumii
2005-04-05 14:14         ` Alex Baretta
2005-04-05 18:07           ` Eijiro Sumii
2005-04-05 14:30         ` Richard Jones [this message]
2005-04-05 18:12           ` Eijiro Sumii
2005-04-05  7:00 sejourne kevin
2005-04-05 13:39 ` Eijiro Sumii

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