Nicolas Williams wrote: > On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 08:48:17AM -0600, Jerry Jelinek wrote: >> This includes the changes for the feedback I have >> received so far. I also added the zlogin.c file >> to the webrev with two bug fixes. One of these was for >> a bug I was hitting during testing of these changes >> and there is a second bug in zlogin that came in >> which I also fixed. So, at a minimum, it would be >> good to take a look at that additional file. > > Why timeout the poll(2) call when you can have a signal handler that > writes a byte into a pipe that you could poll() for? > > That's the "standard" way (well, one of them) to handle signals + > polling. (E.g., we use it in Sun_SSH.) > > If you do it this way you get more responsiveness and you don't waste > time waking up the zlogin process when there's nothing to do (this last > is important w.r.t. power consumption).
Noco, Thanks for looking at this. I'll take a look at implementing your suggestion. Thanks again, Jerry _______________________________________________ zones-discuss mailing list zones-discuss@opensolaris.org