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

[Alexandre F. <ale...@gm...>]

On Sun, Nov 27, 2016 at 10:30 PM, Lucio Andrés Illanes Albornoz
<l.i...@gm...> wrote:
> 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?

Yep, that's the obvious way to simple, per-thread-select without that
horrible beast of central notifier thread. But years ago when floating
the idea round, the consensus was that pthread_kill was not ready for
prime time (varied bug on various OSes). Maybe it's ripe now ?

-Alex