Re: [PATCH 0/2] eventfd: new EFD_STATE flag

From: Paolo Bonzini
Date: Mon Aug 24 2009 - 18:10:57 EST



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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