On Jun 14, 2010, at 11:13 AM, Ken Thomases wrote: > The way around it is to not do blocking operations. Use non-blocking, > asynchronous I/O operations, and impose the timeout yourself.
Last I heard (admittedly, a few years ago) there wasn’t any good way to do async/nonblocking filesystem operations. The standard system calls block; the O_NONBLOCK mode for fcntl only works on network socket streams; and the AIO API has (had?) significant issues. This may have improved in 10.6, though. —Jens_______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
