Re: Suggested addition to epoll interface - epoll_post_notification()

[Roland Dreier]

 > I have been playing with epoll lately and I would like to make a suggestion
 > regarding the epoll interface.
 > It would be nice to have a function to wake up a thread/process that is blocked
 > on an epoll_wait() call and sent it some
 > user defined data in the form of a struct epoll_event parameter ( something
 > similar with PostQueuedCompletionStatus() from Windows ).

You might have a look at eventfd() which creates an fd that can be used
to signal from one thread to another (and which can be waited on with epoll).

 - R.
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