[ace-users] howto return immediately from poll ?

[Douglas C. Schmidt]

Hi,

>> 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
>here "notify pipe" is what class ? I searched in the ACE library, but
>can not find such class (like ACE_Notify_Pipe).

I'm referring here to ACE_Pipe, which is described in Chapter 4 of
C++NPv2 <www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/ACE/book2/>.  This is what the
ACE_Select_Reactor uses internally.

Take care,

     Doug
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