From: Robert Klemme <bob.news@...>
Date: 2004-11-29T17:37:50+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] Multiplexer - linear non-blocking I/O


"Mikael Brockman" <mikael@phubuh.org> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:87zn1283px.fsf@igloo.phubuh.org...

> > Btw, if the only problem is blocking while sending huge chunks of
> > data, then what *I* would do is this: I'd override send() (and others
> > that might be necessary) to do just that.  Then one can still use the
> > simple threaded approach and does not have to care about thread
> > blocking. (Maybe this should even be part of the std lib's socket
> > implementation?)
>
> If blocking on read() is a problem, too, then Multiplexer is essentially
> what you get when you solve it and refactor away the (in my case)
> redundant multi-threading.

:-)  I also forgot the problems of bidirectional communication that make
threaded communication much more complicated, too.  The threaded solution
is really simple and most elegant *only* if there is only one way
communication or if the protocol always makes clear who is sender and
receiver at a certain point in time.

Thanks for taking your time to sort these things out!

Kind regards

    robert