Re: troubles with caps

[Chris Pressey <cpressey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 29 Apr 2004 10:27:10 -0700
Chris Pressey <cpressey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Sun, 25 Apr 2004 18:04:38 -0700 (PDT)
> Matthew Dillon <dillon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> >     I've been thinking about tying it into the file descriptor
> >     subsystem but there are issues related to programs fork()ing and
> >     closing all descriptors that makes it difficult for a libc
> >     implementation to properly deal with the fork.
> 
> This would be very, very handy, if for no other reason than quite a
> bit of existing software, like GTK, makes the assumption that select()
> is how you're going to wait on events.

One more question along these lines, actually: does caps_sys_wait()
block the entire process or just the current pthread?

-Chris