Re: [MiNT] Issue with Mint 1.19 and Litchi

[Peter Persson <pep.fishmoose@gmail.com>]

Fselect() would than work as before, Fselect2() could be used by (new) mintlib to better support select().

My own knowledge of MiNT internals are (embarassingly) minimal but I could at least offer to try and put a prototype implementation together if anybody is willing to help.

What do you think?

I agree 100% with Markus in this case. It's not a good idea to change existing system calls in a way that affect any unknown number of existing programs, and compatibility for these APIs are handled through mintlib. I'd much rather see a nice implementation of Fselect2() :)

While on the subject, it would be nice to have a solution for scenarios which requires very short timeouts. Terminal emulators for example has to call both Evnt_multi() and Fselect() to handle GEM and file I/O respectively. It would be nice if we could fuse these separate entities some way. I guess there are other solutions to explore as well, running it as two separate processes and passing data through the AES or something, but I guess that would impact performance too.

-- PeP