On 02/09/10 06:46, Fujii Masao wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 4:11 PM, Heikki Linnakangas
> <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com> wrote:
>> The obvious next question is how to wait for multiple sockets and a latch at
>> the same time? Perhaps we should have a select()-like interface where you
>> can pass multiple file descriptors. Then again, looking at the current
>> callers of select() in the backend, apart from postmaster they all wait for
>> only one fd.
>
> Currently backends have not waited for multiple sockets, so I don't think that
> interface is required for now. Similarly, we don't need to wait for the socket
> to be ready to *write* because there is no use case for now.
Ok, here's an updated patch with WaitLatchOrSocket that let's you do that.
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Heikki Linnakangas
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