Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 9 Feb 2008 11:43:29 -0500 | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/8][for -mm] mem_notify v6 |
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On Sun, 10 Feb 2008 01:33:49 +0900 "KOSAKI Motohiro" <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> wrote:
> > Where is the netlink interface? Polling an FD is so last century :) > > to be honest, I don't know anyone use netlink and why hope receive > low memory notify by netlink. > > poll() is old way, but it works good enough.
More importantly, all gtk+ programs, as well as most databases and other system daemons have a poll() loop as their main loop.
A file descriptor fits that main loop perfectly.
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