1 Jun
2020
1 Jun
'20
4:58 p.m.
On Mon, Jun 01, 2020 at 01:32:56PM +1000, Dave Horsfall wrote:
On Mon, 1 Jun 2020, Rob Pike wrote:
I'm sure you could, select is super handy, think a network server like
apache.
I???m not quite sure why the Research lineage did
not include
non-blocking behaviour, especially in view of the man page comments.
Maybe it was seen as against the Unix philosophy, with select()
offering sufficient mechanism to avoid blocking (with open() the hard
corner case)?
That's it. Select was good enough for our purposes.
After being dragged through both Berserkley and SysVile, I never did get the
hang of poll()/select() etc,,,