On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 11:17 AM, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> wrote:
> Right now, do use a WaitEventSet you'd do something like
> WaitEvent event;
>
> ModifyWaitEvent(FeBeWaitSet, 0, waitfor, NULL);
>
> WaitEventSetWait(FeBeWaitSet, 0 /* no timeout */, &event, 1);
>
> i.e. use a WaitEvent on the stack to receive the changes. If you wanted
> to get more changes than just one, you could end up allocating a fair
> bit of stack space.
>
> We could instead allocate the returned events as part of the event set,
> and return them. Either by returning a NULL terminated array, or by
> continuing to return the number of events as now, and additionally
> return the event data structure via a pointer.
>
> So the above would be
>
> WaitEvent *events;
> int nevents;
>
> ModifyWaitEvent(FeBeWaitSet, 0, waitfor, NULL);
>
> nevents = WaitEventSetWait(FeBeWaitSet, 0 /* no timeout */, events, 10);
>
> for (int off = 0; off <= nevents; nevents++)
> ; // stuff
I don't see this as being particularly better.
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