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Ulrich Drepper writes: > I so far also haven't taken the time to look exactly at the > interface. I plan to do it asap since this is IMO our big chance > to get it right. I want to have a unifying interface which can > handle all the different events we need and which come up today > and tomorrow. We have to be able to handle not only file > descriptors and AIO but also timers, signals, message queues > (OK, they are file descriptors but let's make it official), > futexes. I'm probably missing the one or the other thing now. Yeah, you're missing one. I must warn you, it's tasteless. You forgot ptrace events. (everybody now: EEEEEEEW!) The wait-related functions in general are interesting. People like to use a general event mechanism to deal with threads exiting. Seriously, it would really help with porting code from that other OS. How about SysV semaphores? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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