On Sun, 4 Jul 1999, Archie Cobbs wrote: > Christopher Sedore writes: > > A new, faster event notification system would be great. But don't forget > to include *all* events, not just file descriptor readability/writability. > I.e., signal delivery, child exit notification, maybe even support for > an arbitrary number of (independent) timers. And make the events independent > from each other -- to avoid problems like when an application completely > hangs for 90 seconds when it calls gethostbyname().
An async thread to do hostname lookups would be great! Wouldn't be too hard in libc_r, would it? But in regular apps, setitimer and sigsetjmp() would be a solution. > -Archie > > ___________________________________________________________________________ > Archie Cobbs * Whistle Communications, Inc. * http://www.whistle.com > Brian Fundakowski Feldman _ __ ___ ____ ___ ___ ___ gr...@freebsd.org _ __ ___ | _ ) __| \ FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! _ __ | _ \._ \ |) | http://www.FreeBSD.org/ _ |___/___/___/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
