Subj : Re: pthreads: combine condvar and select
To   : comp.programming.threads
From : David Schwartz
Date : Thu Jan 13 2005 09:51 am


"Bernhard Roessmann" <roessmann@gmx.net> wrote in message 
news:41e4e6a7@e-post.inode.at...

> BTW: UDP is per definition "unreliable". But I think, UDP over a unix 
> socket should be reliable, right?

    What's your definition of "reliable"? If you use UDP to wake a thread 
from 'select', it is still theoretically possible for the wake packet to be 
dropped. This will typically only happen if the receive buffer is full 
though, in which case the thread is going to wake up anyway.

    DS

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