Re: poll (3) (WAS select (3))

On Sat, Apr 30, 2016 at 3:05 PM, Kaare Rasmussen wrote: > sub poll(CArray[Pollfd], uint64, uint32) returns int32 is native { * } This, unfortunately, means an array of pointers to Pollfd structs, not an array of Pollfd structs. NativeCall doesn't support the latter currently,

poll (3) (WAS select (3))

Den 30-04-2016 kl. 19:14 skrev Kaare Rasmussen: select(3) is an abysmal API. There's a reason most OSes replaced select(2) with a backward compatibility select(3) and moved on to something poll-like (look for poll(2) or epoll(2)). Well, it's not that I fare better with poll

Re: select (3)

On Sat, Apr 30, 2016 at 4:35 AM, Kaare Rasmussen wrote: > my $nfds = dup(0); > Note that "nfds" is the highest fd number to check for, plus one. For the naïve implementation, you need to add one here. my $readfds = CArray[uint8].new(0, 2); > What is this initialized to? The

Re: select (3)

Den 30-04-2016 kl. 10:35 skrev Kaare Rasmussen: Variations over [2] give inconclusive results, so I know I'm doing something (probably very basic) wrong. But what? The current incancation tries to dup the STDIN fd to 14, which should be the second last bit in the 2nd uint8. But I've tried