Re: async poll

From: John Gardiner Myers (jgmyers@netscape.com)
Date: Wed Oct 23 2002 - 16:54:10 EST


Davide Libenzi wrote:

>Why would you want to have a single fd simultaneously handled by two
>different threads with all the locking issues that would arise ?
>
You would not want this to happen. Thus you would want the poll
facility to somehow prevent returning event N+1 until after the thread
that got event N has somehow indicated that it has finished handling the
event.



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