A Problem: Blocking System Calls
This lesson discusses the issue that may arise due to blocking calls in an event-based application
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Thus far, event-based programming sounds great, right? You program a simple loop and handle events as they arise. You don’t even need to think about locking! But there is an issue: what if an event requires that you issue a system call that might block?
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