Re: All thread blocked on (accept socket)

[Marius Vollmer]

Christopher Cramer <address@hidden> writes:

> On Tue, Mar 05, 2002 at 09:00:54PM +0000, Neil Jerram wrote:
> > Although your patch works for this case, I'm not sure it's the right
> > thing to change this in the C code.
> > 
> > Firstly, one could argue that, with the current CVS code, the choice
> > of behaviours is good: if you _want_ the accept to block all threads,
> > just call `accept'; if you don't, call `select' first.
> 
> I can't imagine why anyone would want to block all the threads on an
> accept. But if you did, I think it might be more intuitive to have a
> separate procedure (begin-critical-section or something).

Agreed.  However, we should 'unblock' all syscalls in one go.  Anyone?