On Wed, 22 Jul 2009 15:17:52 -0700, Carl Banks wrote: > So do all these OSes have some kind of __mega_unifying_poll system > call that works for anything that might possibly block, that you can > exploit from a user process?
Threads ;) They also have the advantage that one thread can run while another is waiting on disk I/O, which isn't something which can be done with a select/poll interface (even if select/poll worked for files, it doesn't help for mapped files). -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list