[ENH][VM][UNIX]generalized async IO
Lex Spoon
lex at cc.gatech.edu
Wed Feb 28 23:58:37 UTC 2001
Tim Rowledge <tim at sumeru.stanford.edu> wrote:
> > Hrm, I don't understand. What functions need different numbers
> > of arguments?
> >
> Last time I looked the sockets needed two arguments (microseconds and a
> spare file descriptor) and sound needed none.
>
Ah, right. The descriptor in question is the one for the connection to
the XServer. Now, that descriptor is registered with its own handler,
so the sockets module doesn't need to deal with it.
For the microseconds, that is handled by the central aioPoll() routine.
-Lex
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