Re: [boost] [threads] Win32 Events on POSIX

Subject: Re: [boost] [threads] Win32 Events on POSIX
From: Rob Stewart (rob.stewart_at_[hidden])
Date: 2015-02-17 04:29:07

On February 16, 2015 11:00:25 PM EST, Andrey Semashev <andrey.semashev_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> On Monday 16 February 2015 17:04:34 Rob Stewart wrote:
> > On February 16, 2015 8:21:01 AM EST, Andrey Semashev 
> <andrey.semashev_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> > > On Monday 16 February 2015 06:47:00 Rob Stewart wrote:
> > > >
> > > > The same is possible using select if one opens a pipe
> > > > or socket to the other process, since closing the
> > > > other process will close its end of the IPC.
> > > 
> > > I think sigwait or signalfd are better suited for this.
> > 
> > Those only apply to monitoring signals. The desire here was to wait
> on
> > multiple things including sync primitives.
> 
> I was suggesting a way to monitor a process, as a better alternative
> to pipes.

Okay, but I was suggesting the idea of doing that together with waiting on synchronization primitives, which is the domain of WFMO().

> > > However, I feel that in such cases specialized solutions or
> > > Boost.ASIO would play better.
> > 
> > Those would only apply to files, sockets, etc.
> 
> Boost.ASIO has support for any fd-based entities, and also can be used
> to 
> invoke functions in the working threads. This covers pretty much
> everything 
> you may need in order to synchronize with multiple event sources.

It doesn't cover sync primitives.

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Rob

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