Daniel Eischen wrote: > John Polstra wrote: > >> My hunch is that it's not a fairness issue. It's just the fact that >> when you block in disk I/O, the whole process (all threads) blocks. > > That statement made me think that Modula-3 had it's own threading > support because our native threads using non-blocking file I/O.
For disk I/O? Are you sure? If so then it must use the aio/lio calls or something similar. Disk I/O calls _always_ block, even if you've set O_NONBLOCK on the file descriptor. John --- John Polstra j...@polstra.com John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA "Self-interest is the aphrodisiac of belief." -- James V. DeLong To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
