Re: [Chicken-hackers] [PATCH] Avoid context switch during TCP errno reporting

[Felix]

From: Peter Bex <address@hidden>
Subject: Re: [Chicken-hackers] [PATCH] Avoid context switch during TCP errno 
reporting
Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2013 19:11:56 +0100

> On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 07:08:19PM +0100, Felix wrote:
>> > Actually, scratch that.  Unless this means that the current
>> > implementation of the scheduler is broken on Windows in the first place?
>> > It uses select() for all FDs that any thread is blocked on for I/O,
>> > not just sockets.
>> > 
>> 
>> That's fine. There is no one to implement the full solution anyway,
>> which would mean, digging into the win32 API.
> 
> Yeah, but is it really broken?  I haven't seen any bug reports about the
> scheduler getting stuck on Windows.

select(2) definitely only works for sockets on Windows. If noone has reported
any problems so far, then nobody has used it in that way, I think.


cheers,
felix