[mosh-devel] Status of two submitted patches

Quentin Smith quentin at MIT.EDU
Tue Apr 16 14:39:50 EDT 2013


Note that pselect on OS X is implemented in userspace, and has the exact 
race that we're trying to avoid here.

--QUentin

On Tue, 16 Apr 2013, Keith Winstein wrote:

> I liked our original solution of using signalfd(), and I like our current 
> solution of using pselect() even more, since it's cross-platform to 
> everywhere except OpenBSD. Even Solaris and AIX and Cygwin have pselect()!
>
> If we have to add a workaround for OpenBSD (as Jeremie has helpfully 
> contributed), I think that's fine -- let's just do it. The patch looks fine 
> to me.
>
> I don't want to go back to linking with skalibs.
>
> On Tue, 16 Apr 2013, Quentin Smith wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 16 Apr 2013, Axel Beckert wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 01:41:19PM -0400, Alex Chernyakhovsky wrote:
>>>> I wonder if it's possible for mosh to switch back to the old self-pipe
>>>> code, now that ftpmaster has approved of mosh, and "sneak it in".
>>> 
>>> Don't forget that there are Debian folks (like me :-) are reading this
>>> list, too. ;-)
>> 
>> Mm, so, Debian folks, how should we fix this? ;)
>> 
>> --Quentin
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