Re: Desperately missing a working "pselect()" or similar...

Alan Cox
2001-10-08T16:38:47Z

> Hmmm... would you say the "siglongjmp" method is better than the "self-pipe"
> method for a select on both file descriptors and signals too?

siglongjmp doesnt have to make any syscalls so intuitively I'd say it
ought to be more efficient

> Then somebody mentioned using signals to wake up processes
> for frequent events wouldn't be a good idea at all - why?

Beats me

Alan