From: Stefan Seefeld (seefeld_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-05-09 17:32:38
Aristid Breitkreuz wrote:
> The huge advantage of pipes is that with select, you can poll multiple
> event sources at once. Multiple sem_wait must be placed into multiple
> threads, which is probably more overkill for those rare signals than the
> selfpipe-trick (as they call it).
You are right. For event-driven programs that already run a select/poll
loop, adding just another file descriptor is the best thing to do.
But for all other cases the two require an equivalent efford.
Regards,
Stefan