linux-kernel - Re: [RFC] /dev/itimer

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Message-Id: <20060729004459.11a85a27.froese@gmx.de>
Date:	Sat, 29 Jul 2006 00:44:59 +0200
From:	Edgar Toernig <froese@....de>
To:	Nicholas Miell <nmiell@...cast.net>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] /dev/itimer

Nicholas Miell wrote:
>
> Solaris lets you specify SIGEV_PORT in your struct sigevent which then
> queues timer completions (or anything else that takes a struct sigevent,
> like POSIX AIO) to a port and then all types of queued events (including
> fd polling and user generated events) can be waited on and fetched with
> a single function call.

There must be a reason that I haven't seen that used in the wild yet ...

Ciao, ET.
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