Re: Event on the 2nd German Perl Workshop

[email protected] ("Mark Mielke")
Newsgroups perl.loop
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Tue, Mar 14, 2000 at 08:52:02PM +0100, "Jochen Stenzel" wrote:
> > > One person knew a new UNIX kernel mechanism which actively - if I
> > > understood and noted this correctly - can inform processes when certain
> > > handles are used. He asked if Event supports this mechanism.
> > Show me a man page.  :-)
> I asked for this immediately (last week) and will send a copy/link
> as soon as I receive it. I already mentioned it because it seemed
> possible somebody else knows this too.

Are you talking about streams? I_SETSIG causing SIGPOLL?

Some of that stuff is really sweet. I had a book or something on it
about a year ago that explained it all. It's funny that I remember
quite a bit of it still. You could actually say "whenever data comes
in through the stream head attached to file descriptor blah (ioctl
I_SETSIG), cause the kernel to SIGPOLL me with the details.

Along with asynchronous I/O... yummy. (Solaris)

mark

-- 
[email protected]/[email protected]/[email protected] __________________________
.  .  _  ._  . .   .__    .  . ._. .__ .   . . .__  | SIR Tools          (7H12)
|\/| |_| |_| |/    |_     |\/|  |  |_  |   |/  |_   | Nortel Networks
|  | | | | \ | \   |__ .  |  | .|. |__ |__ | \ |__  | Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

  One ring to rule them all, one ring to find them, one ring to bring them all
                       and in the darkness bind them...

                           http://mark.mielke.cc/
lmpx.com only provides a reader for public news (NNTP) servers. It is not affiliated with the servers or forums shown here and is not responsible for the content of articles, which is written by their respective authors.