Re: [take24 0/6] kevent: Generic event handling mechanism.

Evgeniy Polyakov
2006-11-23T12:26:28Z

On Wed, Nov 22, 2006 at 01:02:00PM -0800, Ulrich Drepper (drepper@redhat.com) wrote:
> Evgeniy Polyakov wrote:
> >But in this case it will be impossible to have SIGEV_THREAD and
> >SIGEV_KEVENT
> >at the same time, it will be just the same as SIGEV_SIGNAL but with
> >different delivery mechanism. Is is what you expect for that?
>
> Yes, that's expected. The event if for the queue, not directed to a
> specific thread.
>
> If in future we want to think about preferably waking a specific thread
> we can then think about it. But I doubt that'll be beneficial. The
> thread specific part in the signal handling is only used to implement
> the SIGEV_THREAD notification.

Ok, so please review patch I sent, if it is ok from design point of
view, I will run some tests here.

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