On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 03:26:19AM +0100, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > It's coming back to me. I wanted to use a select in the writer so I can > have the actual write non-blocked while holding the global lock. I thought > this would make the queue manipulation a bit simpler. It's much better > though to have the RPC outside of the lock, though, and I think the overhead > of the pending output state is not at all too bad.
In fact, there is no such overhead that isn't necessary in either case, so there is no advantage in using select. Hey, at least I can correct my own errors ;) Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] Marcus Brinkmann GNU http://www.gnu.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.marcus-brinkmann.de _______________________________________________ Bug-hurd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-hurd
