Hi Richard,
On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 3:13 PM, Richard Oudkerk
On 28/10/2012 11:52pm, Guido van Rossum wrote:
I'm most interested in feedback on the design of polling.py and scheduling.py, and to a lesser extent on the design of sockets.py; main.py is just an example of how this style works out in practice.
What happens if two tasks try to do a read op (or two tasks try to do a write op) on the same file descriptor? It looks like the second one to do scheduling.block_r(fd) will cause the first task to be forgotten, causing the first task to block forever.
Shouldn't there be a list of pending readers and a list of pending writers for each fd?
There is another approach to handle this. You create a dedicated coroutine which does writing (or reading). And if other coroutine needs to write, it puts data into a queue (or channel), and wait until writer coroutine picks it up. This way you don't care about atomicity of writes, and a lot of other things. This approach is similar to what Greg Ewing proposed for handling accept() recently. -- Paul