[ck] Re: Threading issues? [ck-request@vds.kolivas.org: ck Digest, Vol 3, Issue 16]

[Mike McCormack]

Shachar Shemesh wrote:

>  From what I understood from him, this had a lot to do with the "epoll" 
> change I investigated some time back. I'll let Mike say whether that is so.

There's a bug in the overlapped I/O code in file.c that means a normal 
file fd is added to the select() array and never removed, causing 
wineserver to go into a busy loop.  I have a hack for it CrossOver, 
which I have submitted to wine-patches, which doesn't really fix the 
problem properly:

http://www.winehq.org/hypermail/wine-patches/2004/11/0300.html

The epoll patch fixs the problem, but not directly.  The reason was that 
epoll refuses to add a normal file fd to the fd set, where as select was 
quite happy doing that.

I'm waiting on Eric Peouch's async I/O rewrite to go in and I'll retest 
and see if the above bug still exists.

Mike