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From: lkv@isg.de
To: Christopher Friesen <cfriesen@nortelnetworks.com>
Cc: "Kernel, Linux" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Desperately missing a working "pselect()" or similar...
Date: Fri, 05 Oct 2001 18:40:29 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3BBDE27D.2E65F818@isg.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3BBDD37D.56D7B359@isg.de> <3BBDE1AA.98C4712F@nortelnetworks.com>

Christopher Friesen wrote:

> > 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....

Ok, but man 7 unix says:

 SCM_CREDENTIALS  and  the abstract namespace were introduced with
 Linux 2.2 and should not be used in portable programs

... and I really do want to write portable programs...

Regards,

Lutz Vieweg

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  reply	other threads:[~2001-10-05 16:40 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
2001-10-05 16:40   ` lkv [this message]
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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