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select (or polling) on in_channel?

Eijiro Sumii
- Gerd Stolpmann
  - Eijiro Sumii
- Christoph Bauer
  - Eijiro Sumii
    - Eijiro Sumii
    - Alex Baretta
      - Eijiro Sumii
        
        Alex Baretta
        
        Eijiro Sumii
        
        Richard Jones
        
        Eijiro Sumii

Date:	-- (:)
From:	Richard Jones <rich@a...>
Subject:	Re: [Caml-list] select (or polling) on in_channel?

On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 09:34:39AM -0400, Eijiro Sumii wrote:
> I rather want to avoid multi-threading if select could be easy enough,
> because the former is often too tricky due to the possibility of
> deadlocks and races.

You can implement threads on top of select / poll semantics.  You also
need to have a stack switching operation (such as makecontext /
swapcontext, setjmp / longjmp, or a bit of asm).  Proof by example:
http://www.annexia.org/freeware/pthrlib

Rich.

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