Re: [patch] futex API cleanups, futex-api-cleanup-2.5.69-A2

Ingo Molnar (mingo@elte.hu)
Mon, 19 May 2003 18:02:20 +0200 (CEST)


On Mon, 19 May 2003, bert hubert wrote:

> I for one would want the ability to select, poll and epoll on a futex
> while also being notified of availability of data on sockets. I see no
> alternative even, except for messing with signals or running select with
> a small timeout, introducing needless latency.
>
> It may be weird, but it does work in practice. 'Unrobust' would be a
> problem but I fail to see how this is unclean.

ok, i was flaming away mindlessly. New patch on the way.

Ingo

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