From: "Christopher Friesen" <cfriesen@nortelnetworks.com>
To: lkv@isg.de
Cc: "Kernel, Linux" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Desperately missing a working "pselect()" or similar...
Date: Fri, 05 Oct 2001 12:36:58 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3BBDE1AA.98C4712F@nortelnetworks.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3BBDD37D.56D7B359@isg.de>
lkv@isg.de wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm currently looking for a decent method to wait on either
> an I/O event _or_ a signal coming from another process.
> - Unix domain sockets would be awkward to use due to the fact
> I'd need to come up with some "filenames" for them to bind to,
> and both security considerations and the danger of "leaking"
> files that remain on disk forever make me shudder...
If you use a named socket in the abstract namespace, then it can't "leak" to
disk....
Chris
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-10-05 16:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-10-05 15:36 Desperately missing a working "pselect()" or similar lkv
2001-10-05 16:19 ` Alexander Viro
2001-10-05 16:28 ` lkv
2001-10-05 16:36 ` Christopher Friesen [this message]
2001-10-05 16:40 ` lkv
2001-10-05 20:37 ` Bernd Eckenfels
2001-10-05 23:05 ` Alex Pennace
2001-10-05 23:13 ` Alan Cox
2001-10-05 23:52 ` Alex Pennace
2001-10-05 23:22 ` Neil Brown
2001-10-05 23:30 ` Alex Pennace
2001-10-05 23:43 ` David Schwartz
2001-10-06 0:03 ` Alan Cox
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-10-08 16:32 lkv
2001-10-08 16:44 ` Alan Cox
2001-10-08 17:06 ` lkv
2001-10-08 17:24 ` Alan Cox
2001-10-09 13:37 ` Jan Hudec
2001-10-13 16:05 ` Jamie Lokier
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