[openbeos] Re: Threading and File Descriptors
- From: François Revol <revol@xxxxxxx>
- To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2002 09:26:54 +0200 (MEST)
En réponse à Scott MacMaster <zqxh@xxxxxxx>:
> > >Or we could as well be able to change some (MAX_FD) at runtime, so
> increasing
> > >it just before running critical progs (there is a defined interface
> for
> this,
> > >called ulimit()).
> >
> > This is more tempting.
>
> If this could be made to be adjustable at runtime then it would make
> more
> sense for the 'critical app' to call a function to adjust this value
> instead. I believe, this method would also allow you to have
> different
> lookup algorithms for each process. The process would just set the
> expected
> number of file descriptors of something like that. Then, you'd have
> the
> most efficient lookup for each process.
>
The array would then be atomically copied to a malloc()ed block, and
replaced with the new one bigger...
sounds not so dumb as it was first...
François.
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