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From: peter@transvirtual.com
Date: Mon Jan 04 1999 - 19:07:26 EST


On Tue, 05 Jan 1999, Godmar Back wrote:
>Btw, if you prefer, we could also implement that a condition variable
>is signaled whenever a fd becomes ready. Then you could leave the
>toolkit monitor atomically.

Doesn't help in all cases - consider a Xlib func waiting on a round trip,
getting back from the server IO w/o results. Good chance to instantly blow up
the whole thing. No, I think it's good like it is. We just have to add the
blockOnEAgain to the jthreads (which is rather simple).

-- Peter


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