Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2459 mails)

[Anders Johansson <ajh@xxxxxxxxxx>]

debayan wrote:
> No but even if you fork off separate processes, you get non-blocking IO
> programs using pipes.... why use threads just for that then??

To avoid having to implement an event loop to check and see what
happened to the IO?

To be able to use all your CPU cores?

Also, not all kernel activities are non-blocking

Anders
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