Re: Continuing work on 'with-poll' (feature/more-fds)

[Jonathon McKitrick via "Emacs development discussions." <emacs-devel@gnu.org>]

On Sun, Sep 08, 2024 at 01:28:38PM -0400, chad wrote:

: quite a while back) the mac port used some significantly different internal
: machinery around select that _I would guess_ has a big impact in this area,

I haven't poked around OS internals in a long time, so I'm not sure if I should
start with understanding the 'select' machinery and work outwards, or start with
CIDER's failed nrepl connection and work inward. I could try the carbon port
and compare.

Are there any materials behind this change that might provide guidance to understand
what is being done differently with this approach? I just don't have enough info
to know if it isn't a 'drop-in replacement' or if CIDER makes some assumptions
that do not hold.

: I hope that helps! (I stopped using macOS myself several years ago, so I
: can't offer more direct assistance).

Thanks for taking the time to reply.

: ~Chad

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