Re: [TCLCORE] TIP #458: Add Support for epoll() and kqueue() in the Notifier

[Lucio A. I. A. <l.i...@gm...>]

On 27.11.2016 22:17, Christian Gollwitzer wrote:
> I am not sure, have not reviewed your code. Interthread communication
> works by means of Tcl_ThreadQueueEvent() and Tcl_ThreadAlert(). How does
> it work to wake up a different thread in your implementation?
I've checked the code you've mentioned. This will indeed not work without
the notifier thread as we can hardly block on both a condition variable
(so to speak) and epoll_wait/kevent. How does pthread_kill(3) sound?