On Thu, Nov 09, 2000 at 04:38:35PM +0100, Bjorn Tornqvist wrote:
> I'm going to add 2 functioncalls to the kernel; msgrcv_t() msgsnd_t()
> ("t" as in timeout) where the user will be able to specify a maximum
> amount of time they are prepared to wait for a message to be sent or
> become available.
>
> I just wonder if the rest of the freebsd community is interested in
> these kinds of additions to the kernel? I'm pretty certain there is
> alot more people out there who'd like this functionality. Should I
> bother posting them to the list?
>
> As a sidenote: The main reason I need this is since I can't use
> longjmp()/setjmp() with alarm() between pthread contexts; with FreeBSD
> 5.0 this fix probably won't be necessary (but still nice to have
> though).
>
> And besides, I'd get paid to contribute to the project! =)
I think this might be better handled by a kevent filter for message
queues, if you are going to hack something in the kernel for your
application. At least then it might find some general use.
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