Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 17 Feb 2003 04:46:59 +0000 | From | Jamie Lokier <> | Subject | Re: Synchronous signal delivery.. |
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Werner Almesberger wrote: > Davide Libenzi wrote: > > What do you think about having timers through a file interface ? > > Maybe I'm missing something obvious, but couldn't you simply > do this with a signal handler that writes to (a) pipe(s) ?
You can do that, and sometimes it is done, but the point is to provide a mechanism with is _fast_, as epoll() is.
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