Re: All thread blocked on (accept socket)

[Rob Browning]

Neil Jerram <address@hidden> writes:

> Firstly, one could argue that, with the current CVS code, the choice
> of behaviours is good: if you _want_ the accept to block all threads,
> just call `accept'; if you don't, call `select' first.
>
> Secondly, if we did make this change, we should logically make it in
> lots of other places as well: connect, recv! etc.
>
> So I think we at least need a bit of a discussion...

In the long run, I think there should be thread-blocking (not process
blocking) versions of all the common IO routines.  Whether or not
those should be the *only* versions I'm not sure.

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Rob Browning
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