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Date:	Wed, 22 Nov 2006 13:44:16 +0300
From:	Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@....mipt.ru>
To:	Ulrich Drepper <drepper@...hat.com>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>,
	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	Zach Brown <zach.brown@...cle.com>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	Chase Venters <chase.venters@...entec.com>,
	Johann Borck <johann.borck@...sedata.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>,
	Alexander Viro <aviro@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [take24 0/6] kevent: Generic event handling mechanism.

On Tue, Nov 21, 2006 at 11:38:25PM -0800, Ulrich Drepper (drepper@...hat.com) wrote:
> Evgeniy Polyakov wrote:
> >I've checked the code.
> >Since it will be a union, it is impossible to use _sigev_thread and it
> >becomes just SIGEV_SIGNAL case with different delivery mechanism.
> >Is it what you want?
> 
> struct sigevent is defined like this:
> 
> typedef struct sigevent {
>         sigval_t sigev_value;
>         int sigev_signo;
>         int sigev_notify;
>         union {
>                 int _pad[SIGEV_PAD_SIZE];
>                  int _tid;
> 
>                 struct {
>                         void (*_function)(sigval_t);
>                         void *_attribute;       /* really pthread_attr_t */
>                 } _sigev_thread;
>         } _sigev_un;
> } sigevent_t;
> 
> 
> For the SIGEV_KEVENT case:
> 
>   sigev_notify is set to SIGEV_KEVENT (obviously)
> 
>   sigev_value can be used for the void* data passed along with the
>   signal, just like in the case of a signal delivery
> 
> Now you need a way to specify the kevent descriptor.  Just add
> 
>   int _kevent;
> 
> inside the union and if you want
> 
>   #define sigev_kevent_descr _sigev_un._kevent
> 
> That should be all.

That what I implemented.
But in this case it will be impossible to have SIGEV_THREAD and SIGEV_KEVENT
at the same time, it will be just the same as SIGEV_SIGNAL but with
different delivery mechanism. Is is what you expect for that?

> -- 
> ➧ Ulrich Drepper ➧ Red Hat, Inc. ➧ 444 Castro St ➧ Mountain View, 
> CA ❖

-- 
	Evgeniy Polyakov
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