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Re: Message file madness...
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Gavin Scott <[log in to unmask]>
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Gavin Scott <[log in to unmask]>
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Fri, 27 Apr 2001 16:18:35 -0700
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Tom after me:
> >One question would be why are you using soft interrupts in the
> first place rather than just having one IOWAIT or HPSELECT that
> waits on all your input sources at the same time so that
> interrupts aren't really needed.
>
> The reason was inferred by the closing BTW comment: this program handles
> both (berkeley) socket I/O and message file I/O.

If you replaced the Berkeley sockets interface with NetIPC, then you could
use one IOWAIT for all your asynchronous I/O.

Maybe not an *easy* solution, but the "MPE way" to do this sort of thing.

G.

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