[OT] poll() vs. AIO (was: [PATCH] ash: clear NONBLOCK flag from stdin when in foreground)

Baruch Siach baruch at tkos.co.il
Fri Aug 19 04:29:46 UTC 2011


Hi Cathey,

On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 02:14:43PM -0700, Cathey, Jim wrote:
> Oh, and you have to manage
> the global poll/select timeout value yourself depending on everything
> that is going on in your program, rather than queuing up autonomous
> asynchronous timers, as many as needed, as just additional
> asynchronous blocking operations.  Ugh.

Use timerfd. See timerfd_create(2).

baurch

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