Re: -DNO_THREADS, select(), signals

[David J N Begley <david@avarice.nepean.uws.edu.au>]

On Wed, 21 Jul 1999, Kurt D. Zeilenga wrote:

> For the most part, threads work just fine if you don't attempt to mix in
> oddities such whose behavior is not well defined (such as select) or well
> implemented (such as signal()).  In a pure threaded architecture, you can
> completely avoid using select() and signal().

The next major version of BIND (v9{1}) is apparently heading in this
direction{2} (threaded, no signals), if it's any help/use/interest.

{1} http://www.isc.org/view.cgi?/products/BIND/plans.phtml
{2} http://www.isc.org/bind-users-archive/1999/04/msg00027.html

Cheers..


dave