Re: Unifying epoll,aio,futexes etc. (What I really want from epoll)

From: bert hubert (ahu@ds9a.nl)
Date: Thu Oct 31 2002 - 10:48:08 EST

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On Thu, Oct 31, 2002 at 03:41:12PM +0000, Jamie Lokier wrote:

> There are several scalable and fast event queuing mechanisms in the
> kernel now: rt-signals, aio and epoll, yet each of them is limited by
> only keeping track of a few kinds of possible event.

Probably you could even abuse netlink for this purpose. netlink for kqueue?

Regards,

bert

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