[ace-users] howto return immediately from poll ?

[Douglas C. Schmidt]

Hi,

>Version: 5.5.8
>host: windows xp sp2, suse linux enterprise server 9 sp2
>compiler: vs.net 2003, gcc 3.3.3
>
>in my app, I call poll to wait on a file descriptor (in fact, it is an
>inotify handler). to achieve, I wait infinitely.  My question is :
>How to notify the poll function to return ?  I close the file
>descriptor from another thread, but it still
>blocks. Can I poll on an event handler, so when needed, I can signal
>the event (so the poll function returns).

The only portable way to do this is to use a "notify pipe" and then
use ACE_OS::select() to wait on the notify pipe's handle *and* your
I/O descriptor.  This is basically what the ACE_Select_Reactor does.
Note that this only works portably if your descriptor is actually a
socket.

Doug
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