On Thu, 13 Feb 2003, Davide Libenzi wrote:
>
> That's really nice, I like file-based interfaces. No plan to have a way to
> change the sig-mask ? Close and reopen ?
You can have multiple fd's open at the same time, which is a lot more
convenient.
I will _not_ add a fcntl-like or ioctl interface to this. They are ugly
_and_ there are security issues (ie if you pass on the fd to somebody
else, they must not be able to change the signal mask _you_ specified).
> What do you think about having timers through a file interface ?
One of the reasons for the "flags" field (which is not unused) was because
I thought it might have extensions for things like alarms etc.
Linus
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