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NAME
     selrecord, selwakeup - record and wakeup select requests


SYNOPSIS
     #include <sys/param.h>
     #include <sys/selinfo.h>

     void
     selrecord(struct thread *td, struct selinfo *sip);

     void
     selwakeup(struct selinfo *sip);


DESCRIPTION
     selrecord() and selwakeup() are the two central functions used by
     select(2), poll(2) and the objects that are being selected on.  They
     handle the task of recording which threads are waiting on which objects
     and the waking of the proper threads when an event of interest occurs on
     an object.

     selrecord() records that the calling thread is interested in events
     related to a given object.  If another thread is already waiting on the
     object a collision will be flagged in sip which will be later dealt with
     by selwakeup().

     selrecord() acquires and releases sellock.

     selwakeup() is called by the underlying object handling code in order to
     notify any waiting threads that an event of interest has occurred.  If a
     collision has occurred, selwakeup() will increment nselcoll, and
     broadcast on the global cv in order to wake all waiting threads so that
     they can handle it.  If the thread waiting on the object is not currently
     sleeping or the wait channel is not selwait, selwakeup() will clear the
     TDF_SELECT flag which should be noted by select(2) and poll(2) when they
     wake up.

     The contents of *sip must be zeroed, such as by softc initialization,
     before any call to selrecord() or selwakeup(), otherwise a panic may
     occur.  selwakeup() acquires and releases sellock and may acquire and
     release sched_lock.


SEE ALSO
     poll(2), select(2)


AUTHORS
     This manual page was written by Chad David 〈davidc@FreeBSD.org〉 and
     Alfred Perlstein 〈alfred@FreeBSD.org〉.