Re: [Libusb-devel] Improved timeout handling for interrupt read

[Johannes E. <joh...@er...>]

On Thu, May 15, 2003, St=E9phane Grundschober <gru...@da...> wro=
te:
> I've put in the "patches" section of sf an improvement (from my point 
> of view :-) of the timeout mechanism for interrupt reads. (patch 
> against linux.c v1.41. I've seen that in the mean time there is a 
> 1.42... sorry)
> 
> Instead of using an alarm() call (where you have to use a signal 
> handler), I propose to use a non-blocking ioctl() in combination with =
a 
> sub-second timeout  (via a select() call) and real time comparison.
> 
> Ok, the process is then a little bit more "active" than before, but I 
> hate programming signal handlers...
> 
> Feedback, comments or flame are welcome!

I think this is good for 0.1

I wasn't very keen on doing signal handling in the library.

I'll fix up usb_interrupt_write in the same manner soon.

JE