Hi Tomas, > The fifo is there to defer requests for chopsticks when the > philosopher is hungry or eating. Do you have any other mechanism in > mind?
As the tell -> hear mechanism is a pipe, it behaves like a fifo. So I would expect that this would suffice. I should explain that the internal tell -> hear mechanism maintains dynamic buffers for each parent/child connection, to avoid blocking if a child should not fetch (hear) its data fast enough. This way, the standard limitation of the PIPE_BUF size is avoided. Cheers, - Alex -- UNSUBSCRIBE: mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe
