Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] fusb and select(2)

[Daniel O'Connor]

On Sunday 15 October 2006 11:53, address@hidden wrote:
> [*] Not counting threads.  Quoting Alan Cox: "Computers are state
> machines.  Threads are for people who can't program state machines."

USB's IO model is not well suited to select() style applications since it 
doesn't allow it to tell the OS how much data should be read in advance 
(since there is no real way for a USB device to flag it has data to be sent 
to the app).

Async. IO is a much closer match but support for that in your OS may be 
limited. (Especially for raw device nodes and USB in particular)

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