Messages in this thread | | | From | "Bagalkote, Sreenivas" <> | Subject | RE: Registering for multiple SIGIO within a process | Date | Thu, 29 Sep 2005 00:09:11 -0400 |
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> >On Wed, 2005-09-28 at 20:44 -0400, Bagalkote, Sreenivas wrote: >> >(Sheesh, what is it with people thinking signals are >something to be >> >used in any design after the 1970's?) >> What's your recommendation for asynchronous notification from driver >> to an application? > >Pass back an fd to select() upon. Cuts out that nasty middle >step where app authors end up registering a signal handler >that merely write()s the signal number down a pipe into the >(nearly ubiquitous) select loop. > >Ray >
select() is not asynchronous to the app (like a signal handler is). - 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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