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    SubjectRe: [RESEND][RFC PATCH v2] waitfd
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    On Wed, 2009-01-07 at 12:53 -0800, Roland McGrath wrote:

    > New syscall should have gone to linux-api, I think.
    >
    > Do we really need another one for this? How about using signalfd plus
    > setting the child's exit_signal to a queuing (SIGRTMIN+n) signal instead of
    > SIGCHLD? It's slightly more magical for the userland process to know to do
    > that (fork -> clone SIGRTMIN). But compared to adding a syscall we don't
    > really have to add, maybe better.
    >
    Doesn't that also change the wait() options you need as well?

    Scott
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