On 1 feb 2012, at 23:31, Nick Mathewson wrote: > … [ questions about POSIX signals and pthreads ] … > … > Sadly, this whole business is a huge pile of gunk.
Thanks for the epic reply, Nick. I did some additional research before diving into my POSIX signal plan and it indeed looks like a huge mess. My initial optimism about potentially having my pthread-cake and eating it too waned quickly. Especially on Windows you enter some bizarrely limited alternate reality regarding signal handling. For now, I've settled on using a loopback socket for interthread communication. I've not yet tested this approach with thousands of clients, but I will certainly benchmark later comparing sockets to pthread mutex locking. You are probably right that the pthread mutex scenario wouldn't be too bad after all. Once I get some concrete numbers to share, I'll post them to the list. With kind regards, Frank *********************************************************************** To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to majord...@freehaven.net with unsubscribe libevent-users in the body.
