Waiting on Sockets or File Descriptors
Carsten Schultz
carsten at codimi.de
Wed Feb 2 10:39:14 EST 2005
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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