Subject: Re: pipes from FreeBSD and the NetBSD async I/O bug
To: Christos Zoulas <christos@zoulas.com>
From: Jason R Thorpe <thorpej@zembu.com>
List: tech-kern
Date: 04/30/2001 18:04:45
On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 08:55:08PM -0400, Christos Zoulas wrote:

 > Code written correctly can handle both cases. Making assumptions about
 > when SIGIO is going to be sent will just lead to trouble. Typically
 > SIGIO is used in conjuction with select/poll to discover if the event
 > is a read or write availability event. I really don't understand why
 > the jdk is written in a way that fails when it receives extra SIGIO's.

Well, apparently it is.  And since it's a binary we're trying to run,
not source code we're trying to port....

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        -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@zembu.com>