Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 15 Sep 1999 16:32:26 +0200 | From | Marc Lehmann <> | Subject | Re: POSIX aio vs completion ports |
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On Wed, Sep 15, 1999 at 01:15:43AM +0100, "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com> wrote: > > no, it isn't a non-kernel issue. this must be done atomically wrt the > > user level, > > No, it must be atomic between threads. No big deal, the user-mode code > can use a lock. It's a non-kernel issue.
I think the problem he _wanted_ to make clear is that different libraries would have to agree on some totally non-standard extra library not currently available. Not a kernel issue, anyway.
And as other people, have shown, sigactioin is enough atomicity to ensure that, and it exists already,
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