Re: [PATCH] sysevq (kqueue equivalent)

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Tue Mar 05 2002 - 19:45:07 EST


> I wanna know two things. First, is there any plan to include some
> event handling mechanism into the official kernel? Second, if so, am I
> heading the right direction? Any comments are welcomed.

aio is pending going in. Asynchronous event notification with real time
signals is already in and can be used as an event queue. Set the rt signal
to use to be a real time one, mask it and pull it off the queue when you
want. It hands you back the file handle.
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