Re: [lkml] RE: self piping and context switching

[Alan Cox]

On Sad, 2003-09-13 at 03:56, Iker wrote:
> More specifically, I was wondering if the write to the pipe or the call back
> into poll involved anything that might prompt the scheduler to replace the
> thread in this scenario.

Unless it happens to cause page faults or fill up the pipe nothing in
paticular.  Sending a message to yourself down a pipe is pretty standard
in event based programs as a way of turning a signal from asynchronous
event and thus nuisance to handle into a message.

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