NAME    [Toc]    [Back]

     selrecord, selwakeup -- record and wakeup select requests

SYNOPSIS    [Toc]    [Back]

     #include <sys/param.h>
     #include <sys/selinfo.h>

     void
     selrecord(struct thread *td, struct selinfo *sip);

     void
     selwakeup(struct selinfo *sip);

DESCRIPTION    [Toc]    [Back]

     selrecord() and selwakeup() are the two central functions used by
     select(2), poll(2) and the objects that are being selected on.  They handle
 the task of recording which threads are waiting on which objects and
     the waking of the proper threads when an event of interest occurs on an
     object.

     selrecord() records that the calling thread is interested in events
     related to a given object.  If another thread is already waiting on the
     object a collision will be flagged in sip which will be later dealt with
     by selwakeup().

     selrecord() acquires and releases sellock.

     selwakeup() is called by the underlying object handling code in order to
     notify any waiting threads that an event of interest has occurred.  If a
     collision has occurred, selwakeup() will increment nselcoll, and broadcast
 on the global cv in order to wake all waiting threads so that they
     can handle it.  If the thread waiting on the object is not currently
     sleeping or the wait channel is not selwait, selwakeup() will clear the
     TDF_SELECT flag which should be noted by select(2) and poll(2) when they
     wake up.

     selwakeup() acquires and releases sellock and may acquire and release
     sched_lock.

SEE ALSO    [Toc]    [Back]

     poll(2), select(2)

AUTHORS    [Toc]    [Back]

     This man page was written by Chad David <davidc@FreeBSD.org> and Alfred
     Perlstein <alfred@FreeBSD.org>.


FreeBSD 5.2.1			March 20, 2002			 FreeBSD 5.2.1