Re: Asynchronous CDROM Events in Userland

H. Peter Anvin (hpa@zytor.com)
Mon, 04 Feb 2002 08:20:29 -0800


john slee wrote:

>
> not so long ago dan kegel suggested an interface to signals based on
> file descriptors, and perhaps even an alpha patch implementing such.
> this allowed you to select() on them.
>

That's still not a good reason to use signals for this particular interface.

-hpa

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