Flips tracking of IPC

[Christian Helmuth]

Hello,

On Mon, May 02, 2005 at 08:30:04PM +0100, Tiago Jorge wrote:
> ok... maybe this is my problem regarding another thread in the hackers 
> list... can this be solved using "select"?
> Because i must have a listen socket and a sending socket... so if my l4 
> server has a socket in a select wainting for input, should it be able to 
> send throught another socket?

Again, I'm not sure what your scenario looks like. You need a listen
socket L and a socket for sending S, right? Do you implement a TCP server
with accept()? I'm asking since you talked about UDP communication in
earlier emails.

Anyway, your server blocks on L and afterwards you want your server to
send via S? A simple answer is: Deblock your server via a network packet
or any other action on a file (as you said you use select()). Then your
server is no longer blocked on an fd_set containig L and can send via S.

If this is not your favourite solution you have three choices:

1) Give us a detailed description of your scenario so we have a chance to
   help you.
2) Implement a really multi-threaded server with dietlibc and L4VFS, in
   which thread A can block on L while thread B sends via S. Post your
   experiences and ask questions backgrounded with sufficient information
   about the scenario and used functions.
3) Help yourself.

Greets
-- 
Christian Helmuth
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