Per Hedbor () @ Pike (-) developers forum wrote:
I guess I am the shuffler guru, since I wrote it. However, I don't
Sorry, wrong attribution :-).
really know how the new backend works.
Who wrote that, and isn't it documented somewhere or even in a mail on this list, outlined? Or is it just UTSL?
problems in the shuffler, and perhaps also add a new non-pike-lock stealing mode of operation for pure FD:s (the latter would however not be all that portable, unless I copy large chunks of the backend code,
I'll settle for non-portable, but Posix, and then provide an alternate slower version for other poor souls.
Most likely the only thing you have to do to get the shuffler working is to disable the b_source_normal_file.c source by returning 0 at the very start of source_normal_file_make (eg, comment out line 88)
Ok, will try that. Watch this space.