PATCH: Make gdbserver use async I/O on Linux

J.T. Conklin jtc@redback.com
Thu Jun 21 13:28:00 GMT 2001


>>>>> "Daniel" == Daniel Jacobowitz <dmj+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:
Daniel> The only problem I can think of that this might cause is if
Daniel> F_SETOWN is less portable than FASYNC.  Apparently you need to
Daniel> do that explicitly on a Linux target before SIGIO will be
Daniel> sent.

The same is true on other targets as well.

I found that Greg McGary submitted a patch quite a long time ago to do
async i/o on Linux and additional targets that was never applied.  I'm
going to rectify that problem and will commit it shortly.

        --jtc

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J.T. Conklin
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