linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/2] eventfd: new EFD

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Message-ID: <4A930FE4.6090209@gnu.org>
Date:	Tue, 25 Aug 2009 00:10:44 +0200
From:	Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@....org>
To:	Davide Libenzi <davidel@...ilserver.org>
CC:	Avi Kivity <avi@...hat.com>, "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>,
	gleb@...hat.com, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] eventfd: new EFD_STATE flag


> There are userspace libraries that do almost everything, but you hardly
> see things like pthread_(EFD_STATE-like)_create() or similar system
> interfaces based on such abstraction.

It actually seems as close to a condition variable as an eventfd can be.

Paolo
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