Subject: Re: pipes from FreeBSD and the NetBSD async I/O bug
To: None <p99dreyf@criens.u-psud.fr>
From: Ben Harris <bjh21@netbsd.org>
List: tech-kern
Date: 04/30/2001 22:46:56
In article <1esox5k.1h41eyq110nufuM@[10.0.12.137]> you write:
>The question now is that should we fix the async I/O semantic of the old
>implementation, or should we rely on the new implementation? If we
>choose the latter, then we must throw away the old implementation
>completely, because having broken semantic on async signals is bad, but
>having two different semantics is even worst.

Since the behaviour of the old pipes will presumably also apply to
Unix-domain sockets, they'll need fixing (or proving correct) anyway, won't
they?

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Ben Harris                                                   <bjh21@netbsd.org>
Portmaster, NetBSD/arm26               <URL:http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/arm26/>