Re: OT: Windows (Was: Re: Open Source does not mean easily

In article <677e2eb8$0$375$426a34cc@news.free.fr>,
Nicolas George  <nicolas$george@salle-s.org> wrote:

Scott Lurndal, dans le message <BcmfP.289889$aTp4.50420@fx09.iad>, a
�crit�:

It is perfectly possible to poll() on a thread condition.   See pipe(2).

>
It is possible to write code to wake a thread blocked in poll(). I have not
tried to deny this. It is not possible to poll() directly on a thread
condition. You have not disproved that.

I think it's important to define what you mean when you write,
"thread condition."  What, exactly, is that?  Perhaps you mean
a condition variable?  If so, that's true, but I fail to see
the relevance: people write multithreaded code that does IO in
multiple all the time; there are some techniques that are common
for this (Scott alluded to the so-called "pipe trick", due to
Bernstein) and some that are less common.  It may be harder or
easier depending on which techniques you employ, but it's all
doable.

- Dan C.