Re: Patches for poll-based NSRunLoop

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On Friday, January 25, 2002, at 02:38 AM, Kaelin Colclasure wrote:

> I now have a version of NSRunLoop that uses poll(2) instead of
> select(2).  It has been lightly tested in my benchmarking application,
> and exhibits no obvious problems handling OTOO 10000 file
> descriptors. I have also verified that the select code still works by
> manually overriding the HAVE_POLL define and recompiling.
>
> I think one responder to my original post on this topic commented that
> the changes should be ``trivial.'' I would instead say
> ``straightforward'' as there are enough differences between the
> semantics of select and poll to keep things interesting. :-)
>
> What's the accepted way to submit this for the consideration of the
> GNUstep maintainers? Should I post a patch here? The bug list? Or is 
> there
> another list I should join?

Can't remember if I replied to this ... please post to the bugs mailing
list so everyone can see it, and I'll look at incorporating it into the
source.

I think I said 'almost trivial' - but that's from the point of view
of someone who has been writing unix comms related software since before
either select() or poll() existed (around 20 years), and is very familiar
with NSRunLoop ... so I guess 'straightforward' may be more appropriate.