Is it possible to block pending queued RealTime signals (AIO originating)?

[Adrian Chadd]

On 8 January 2013 08:15, Richard Sharpe <rsharpe at richardsharpe.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2013-01-08 at 07:36 -0800, Adrian Chadd wrote:
>> .. or you could abstract it out a bit and use freebsd's
>> aio_waitcomplete() or kqueue aio notification.
>>
>> It'll then behave much saner.
>
> Yes, going forward that is what I want to do ... this would work nicely
> with a kqueue back-end for Samba's tevent subsystem, and if someone has
> not already written such a back end, I will have to do so, I guess.

Embrace FreeBSD's nice asynchronous APIs for doing things! You know you want to!

(Then, convert parts of samba over to use grand central dispatch... :-)

Seriously though - I was doing network/disk IO using real time signals
what, 10 + years ago on Linux and it plain sucked. AIO + kqueue +
waitcomplete is just brilliant. kqueue for signal delivery is also
just brilliant. Just saying.



Adrian