Re: [patch 00/13] Syslets, "Threadlets", generic AIO support, v3

Davide Libenzi
2007-03-02T17:28:15Z

On Fri, 2 Mar 2007, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote:

> do we really want to have per process signalfs, timerfs and so on - each
> simple structure must be bound to a file, which becomes too cost.

I may be old school, but if you ask me, and if you *really* want those
events, yes. Reason? Unix's everything-is-a-file rule, and being able to
use them with *existing* POSIX poll/select. Remember, not every app
requires huge scalability efforts, so working with simpler and familiar
APIs is always welcome.
The *only* thing that was not practical to have as fd, was block requests.
But maybe threadlets/syslets will handle those just fine, and close the gap.

- Davide