In <ufahff7kqjz.fsf@epithumia.math.uh.edu> Jason L Tibbitts III (tibbs@math.uh.edu) wrote:
>>>>>> "JP" == Jesse Pollard <pollard@tomcat.admin.navo.hpc.mil> writes:
JP>> And who gets the notice if no one is there? or no one is logged in?
> It seems reasonable to me that if no notifier callback exists for the
> device (i.e. nobody has claimed it), you fail. If someone is logged in but
> is not at the console, then you eventually time out and fail. None of this
> seems worse than current behavior.
> But this has wandered off topic for this list, since the precise behavior
> is a user space problem.
NO! This IS topic for this list. Since ONLY when "sample implementation" for
userspace part exists you can be shure that kernel part is "good enough".
Take a look on LinuxThreads: THREE YEARS was needed to add some important
pieces to kernel for proper implementation of LinuxKernels. Just since
initially it was decided that actual implementation is user space problem
and should not bother kernel developers.
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