Re: [HACKERS] Re: [PATCHES] patches for 6.2.1p6

> 
> On Fri, 20 Mar 1998, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> 
> > > I'am against a generic patch using select(). If we have sched_yield() on an
> > > architecture I don't see why dont't use it. Here is the patch for Linux.
> > > It has been tested for two months by 100 users without any problem.
> > > The only thing I would add is a more general configuration test in configure
> > > to include the proper include files.
> > 
> > I understand your issue.  Unfortunately, only Linux has sched_yield(),
> > as far as I know.  Perhaps we can implement sched_yield/select based on
> > the platform.  
> 
> 	What's the possibility of doing this similar to how we do some of
> the other functions (dl_open comes immediately to mind)...make a
> pg_sched_yield function and use that, which is built based on the various
> platforms?
> 
> 	Right now, I don't believe we have *anything* in place, so have
> pg_sched_yield() return 0 (or an equivalent) for every platform except for
> Linux...
> 
> Marc G. Fournier                                
> Systems Administrator @ hub.org 
> primary: scrappy@hub.org           secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org 
I appreciate all the help, but I think I have a solution for this. Details
next week...

-dg

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