> This demonstrates the point that select and poll are workarounds for
> the lack of threading support in Unix. They aren't needed if you use
> a threads facility (or a separate process for each thread you need).
>
> Once you have threads you can stick to the intuitive synchronous model
> of system calls, which has always effectively handled waking one of
> multiple waiters.
Not as effectively as it would seem at the first sight. If you decide
to use multithreading, you eat lots of memory and (which is probably more
important) lots of L2 cache for thread stacks.
A possible solution could be extending of the SIGIO concept in the
following way:
- SIGIO handler gets an extra parameter containing the FD
in being reported.
- FASYNC gets split to read and write part
Have a nice fortnight
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