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pthreads, read() and linux
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Todd Enersen)
Wed Feb 21 21:09:01 1996
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 1996 17:38:47 -0800 (PST)
From: Todd Enersen <tee@dgsystems.com>
To: pthreads@MIT.EDU
I've written a device driver under Linux 1.[23].X that doesn't seem to be
Pthreads combatible. Basically, one thread is reading from the device
driver and posting events to a second thread, which is dealing with said
events. The read() in the first thread basically causes the second
thread from executing, since it is a blocking read().
My question is: Must all calls to read() be non-blocking in a Pthread
environment? And if so, does the standard C library handle this by
wrapping the read() and open() calls with ones that enforce a
non-blocking paradigm?
Thanks in advance ...
todd enersen
