[Olsr-users] Broadcast Packets & Windows Routin

[Erik Tromp]

> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
> Van: Hannes Gredler [mailto:(spam-protected)] 
> Verzonden: zaterdag 23 februari 2008 15:44
> Aan: Henning Rogge
> CC: Erik Tromp; (spam-protected)
> Onderwerp: Re: [Olsr-users] Broadcast Packets & Windows Routin
> 
> 
> 
> Henning Rogge wrote:
>  >>  Yes, thanks! But .... it is also polling :-((  >>  >>  
> The call to 'olsr_select' inside 'poll_sockets' specifies a 
> time-out of  struct timeval tvp = {0, 0};  > Okay, thats 
> definitely a bug...
> 
> why is that a bug ? -
> 
>  > Hannes, you are writing the new timer framework, is there 
> a reason why  > we don't use the select timeout to wait for 
> the next package and timer  > at the same time ?
> 
> i am not sure what benefits we would get from this.
> 
> /hannes


The benefit is that it would save our poor plugin developers from
having to do their own call to 'select' in a separate thread when
they want fast handling of their packets ...

See also my previous e-mail.

Erik