Re: CVS commit: src/lib/libc/rpc

[Chuck Silvers <chuq%chuq.com@localhost>]

On Tue, Nov 08, 2005 at 11:54:23AM +0000, Rui Paulo wrote:
> On 2005.11.07 20:22:46 -0800, Chuck Silvers wrote:
> | On Sat, Nov 05, 2005 at 10:26:38PM +0000, Rui Paulo wrote:
> | > | since there's only 1 file descriptor in this case, it seems better
> | > | to just go back to the previous pollts() implementation.
> | > 
> | > The objective here was, as the FreeBSD commit log shows:
> | > 
> | > Revision 1.15 / (download) - annotate - [select for diffs], Tue Oct 15
> | > 22:28:59 2002 UTC (3 years ago) by iedowse
> | > Branch: MAIN
> | > CVS Tags: RELENG_5_1_BP, RELENG_5_1_0_RELEASE, RELENG_5_1,
> | > RELENG_5_0_BP, RELENG_5_0_0_RELEASE, RELENG_5_0
> | > Changes since 1.14: +90 -158 lines
> | > 
> | > Use kqueue(2) instead of poll(2) to wait for replies and timeouts
> | > in the UDP RPC client code. As a side-effect, this fixes some bugs
> | > that might prevent the RPC call from ever timing out for example
> | > if the server keeps responding with the wrong xid. This could
> | > probably be simplified further by using the EVFILT_TIMER filter.
> | 
> | we can keep the timeout fixes and just go back to pollts() as the
> | mechanism for sleeping.  do you want to code that up or should I?
> 
> Do you mind doing that ? I'm currently moving home and I will have no
> inet access for some time at the new one.

no problem, I'll take care of it.

-Chuck