Waiting on Sockets or File Descriptors

[Carsten Schultz]

Hi!

On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 02:57:24PM +0100, Peter Simons wrote:
> Tomasz Zielonka writes:
> 
>  >     threadWaitRead :: Int -> IO ()
>  >     threadWaitWrite :: Int -> IO ()
> 
> Thanks for the pointer!
> 
> Am I correct in assuming that there is no "more high-level"
> mechanism for scheduling more than one file descriptor? Like
> select(2) or poll(2) would do?

Well, I *guess* that this is exactly what GHC will do internally.  And
I seem to dimly remember a what-is-more-high-level-discussion here,
but it may have been on a different topic ;-)

Just do an strace, if you want to know (and are running Linux).

Take care,

Carsten

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