[coyotos-dev] Blocking Sends

Neal H. Walfield neal at walfield.org
Wed May 31 13:50:36 EDT 2006


At Wed, 31 May 2006 13:35:02 -0400,
Jonathan S. Shapiro wrote:
> 
> It cannot be, because this would require a reverse notification on
> unblock, and there simply isn't any good place to leave the necessary
> data structure. The process blocks as a whole.

This is interesting as it sounds like it will make implementing a user
level thread package quite difficult: anytime any user thread blocks,
all thread block.  Do you see this as a problem?  Do you imagine a
work around?

Thanks,
Neal


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