On Sat, 08 Apr 2006 23:04:23 +0100, Steve Horsley wrote:

> Mike - EMAIL IGNORED wrote:
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> If your select thread doesn't actually do the recv(), but just
> queues a signal to another thread, then when it goes and
> select()s again, there's a good chance it will see the socket is
> STILL ready to read, and therefore queue another signal. You
> could send up sending a whole stream of signals when just one
> packet arrives. I don't like that idea.

The select thread doesn't look at a socket that just
read until the read thread "signals" that it has read,
so this is not a decisive argument.

>
> So I think you should do the recv() in the selecting thread, and
> queue the data instead of just a signal.
>
> Steve