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29.Dd June 13, 2007
30.Dt SELRECORD 9
31.Os
32.Sh NAME
33.Nm selrecord ,
34.Nm selwakeup
35.Nd "record and wakeup select requests"
36.Sh SYNOPSIS
37.In sys/param.h
38.In sys/selinfo.h
39.Ft void
40.Fn selrecord "struct thread *td" "struct selinfo *sip"
41.Ft void
42.Fn selwakeup "struct selinfo *sip"
43.Sh DESCRIPTION
44.Fn selrecord
45and
46.Fn selwakeup
47are the two central functions used by
48.Xr select 2 ,
49.Xr poll 2
50and the objects that are being selected on.
51They handle the task of recording which threads are waiting on which objects
52and the waking of the proper threads when an event of interest occurs on an
53object.
54.Pp
55.Fn selrecord
56records that the calling thread is interested in events related to a given
57object.
58If another thread is already waiting on the object a collision will be flagged
59in
60.Fa sip
61which will be later dealt with by
62.Fn selwakeup .
63.Pp
64.Fn selrecord
65acquires and releases
66.Va sellock .
67.Pp
68.Fn selwakeup
69is called by the underlying object handling code in order to notify any waiting
70threads that an event of interest has occurred.
71If a collision has occurred,
72.Fn selwakeup
73will increment
74.Va nselcoll ,
75and broadcast on the global cv in order to wake all waiting threads so that
76they can handle it.
77If the thread waiting on the object is not currently sleeping or the wait
78channel is not
79.Va selwait ,
80.Fn selwakeup
81will clear the
82.Dv TDF_SELECT
83flag which should be noted by
84.Xr select 2
85and
86.Xr poll 2
87when they wake up.
88.Pp
89The contents of
90.Fa *sip
91must be zeroed, such as by softc initialization, before any call to
92.Fn selrecord
93or
94.Fn selwakeup ,
95otherwise a panic may occur.
96.Fn selwakeup
97acquires and releases
98.Va sellock
99and may acquire and release
100.Va sched_lock .
101.Sh SEE ALSO
102.Xr poll 2 ,
103.Xr select 2
104.Sh AUTHORS
105.An -nosplit
106This manual page was written by
107.An Chad David Aq davidc@FreeBSD.org
108and
109.An Alfred Perlstein Aq alfred@FreeBSD.org .
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