On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 10:35:28PM -0600, William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote: > I've been thinking the same thing driving around this evening... > > One major goal of httpd-3.0 is *finally* arriving at something that starts > looking async. We've kicked it around some time, but perhaps it's time > to start looking at the async poll implementation, to get some idea of how > we can 'poll' on multiple sorts of events. > > The one thing that is clear to me, pre-1.0: win32 needs to be able to poll > pipes and sockets, *even* if it means a really lame 100ms timeout (perhaps > configurable) on the socket poll to look sideways at the pipe info. There is > no way to solve any of these problems without clearing that first hurdle.
On platforms where pipes are not an advantage over sockets, why not use socketpair() instead of pipe()? Cheers, Glenn
