Jack Lloyd wrote:
I believe Michael is actually talking about the "thundering herd" problem, when many processes are all waiting on a single event, which only one of them will end up responding to. That is a classic problem affecting some uses of select (and also accept, and IIRC a few other socket calls as well).
Precisely what I was thinking, though I suppose I should have actually said it. ;-) Thanks. ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org Development Mailing List openssl-dev@openssl.org Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]