On Thu, 8 Jun 2000, Berend Ozceri wrote:
> Marcus Meissner wrote:
>
> > No, also the networking between 2.2 and 2.4 should not have changed.
> >
> > This sounds like a timing problem somewhere, most likely in our code.
> >
> > select() internal functionality was changed a lot in 2.3.x* if I remember
> > correctly, so this might be a starting point to look.
>
> Yes, it did. This is exactly what I was suspecting, too - if I remember
> correctly, a poll()/select() change broke certain applications under XFree86
> 4.0 for a while until things were straightened out. I'll try to see what
> I can dig up.
That was only because they used a userspace thread package that wrapped
select but not poll, then the 4.0 xlib called poll meaning the thread
stuff broke all over.
/ Alex
