From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: john slee <indigoid@higherplane.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, dank@kegel.org
Subject: Re: Asynchronous CDROM Events in Userland
Date: Mon, 04 Feb 2002 08:20:29 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3C5EB4CD.5060006@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.30.0202032333200.1158-100000@rtlab.med.cornell.edu> <a3l4uc$laf$1@cesium.transmeta.com> <20020204124344.GA4757@higherplane.net>
john slee wrote:
>
> not so long ago dan kegel suggested an interface to signals based on
> file descriptors, and perhaps even an alpha patch implementing such.
> this allowed you to select() on them.
>
That's still not a good reason to use signals for this particular interface.
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-02-04 16:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-02-04 4:41 Asynchronous CDROM Events in Userland Calin A. Culianu
2002-02-04 5:07 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-02-04 5:19 ` Calin A. Culianu
2002-02-04 12:43 ` john slee
2002-02-04 15:23 ` Calin A. Culianu
2002-02-04 16:20 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2002-02-04 7:04 ` Erik Andersen
2002-02-04 7:57 ` Jens Axboe
2002-02-04 9:33 ` Gregor Jasny
2002-02-04 9:39 ` Jens Axboe
2002-02-04 14:05 ` hugang
2002-02-05 7:43 ` Jens Axboe
2002-02-04 12:16 ` Alan Cox
2002-02-04 20:51 ` oops booting 2.4.18-pre7-ac3 Todd M. Roy
2002-02-05 4:04 ` Asynchronous CDROM Events in Userland Stevie O
2002-02-05 4:28 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-02-05 4:44 ` Calin A. Culianu
2002-02-05 4:47 ` H. Peter Anvin
[not found] ` <a3l4uc@cesium.transmeta.com>
2002-02-06 14:22 ` Pavel Machek
2002-02-06 22:48 ` H. Peter Anvin
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2002-02-05 13:17 David Balazic
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