Subj : Re: Thread Synchronisation and select()
To   : comp.programming.threads
From : Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk
Date : Tue Jul 26 2005 01:40 pm

Jason Curl <j_dot_curl@motorola_dot_com.invalid> writes:

> Is there a way to associate a posix mutex, condition variable, etc.
> to a file descriptor?

You can make a pipe, select on it, and write a byte to it to wake up
the select (and read from it after select so it doesn't fill up).

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