porting bird to ecos

Martin Mares mj at ucw.cz
Tue May 16 13:59:50 CEST 2006


Hello!

> Some applications making heavy use networking make extensive use of
> light weight threads instead, thus allowing blocking streams.  This is
> more common on platforms that either don't support fork() well...

BIRD doesn't need fork(), but as I was thinking about non-blocking IO,
it could be probably worked around by using select() or poll() after
each IO operation. Does eCos support these calls properly?

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