[Fwd: cvs commit: src/sys/kern sys_generic.c]

Doug White dwhite at gumbysoft.com
Sun Aug 29 17:21:08 PDT 2004


On Fri, 27 Aug 2004, Andre Oppermann wrote:

> Maybe this fixes poll() problems/errors some people have seen on their
> machines.  I am not sure if this alignment would have caused problems
> on non-ia32 architectures but it is certainly more correct now. ;-)

Heh. Its possible; I spent a few hours on Saturday trying to trigger any
apparent poll() wakeup problems with unix domain sockets and TCP with no
joy.  The one report that was forwarded to me involved some windowmaker
dockapps and the poll()s were probably sitting on the X domain socket.

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