Re: [Linux-ia64] SAL error record logging/decoding

[Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org>]

On Thu, May 29, 2003 at 04:33:49PM -0700, Luck, Tony wrote:
> Seems odd that we read "cpu 5 cpe" from the "control" file, and then
> turn around to write the same thing back to the same file.

Agreed.

> Applications block reading the "event" file (or use poll(2) on it) to
> find out that it is worth reading.  When they read, they see the "cpu
> 5 cpe" type message.  They write that to "control", and then read from
> "data".
> 
> Or, back to two files: {event,data} ... we read from "event" to see
> what happened.  Writing to "data" controls what will be read from "data".

I like this alternative better.  But there's a bit of a race condition if
two programs are attempting to use these files at the same time.

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