On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 9:22 PM, Alexander Burger <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Edwin, > >> > So if you just close the file descriptor, but don't remove it from the >> > task list, you'll get a "Key conflict" error when the next time a new >> > socket with that file descriptor number is assigned a 'task', or when >> > the event handler processing '*Run' passes the closed file descriptor to >> > select(2). >> >> what's the reason for running it via (task) in the first place? > > A task is a piece of code to be run whenever a certain "event" happens. > > An "event" is either the expiry of a timer, or the arrival of data on a > file descriptor. There may be several timers and many file descriptors > where the process is expecting something to happen, so they are all put > into a list in '*Run', and handled with I/O Multiplexing (the POSIX > select(2) system call).
there you go. thank you. > > Cheers, > - Alex > -- > UNSUBSCRIBE: mailto:[email protected]?subject=Unsubscribe > -- UNSUBSCRIBE: mailto:[email protected]?subject=Unsubscribe
