On Sun, 6 May 2007 00:50:47 -0700 "Ulrich Drepper" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I really do not understand your point. You're too smart to not appreciate > > the beauty and the simmetry of objects that responds to a common interface > > (our files, win32 handles), and that fits our existing kernel > > infrastructure. > > You're blinded by this symmetry. Not everything that looks like a > good fit is a good idea. This is one case. Get over it, poll is not > powerful enough to serve as the unifying event mechanism. What is your position on the timerfd/signalfd/etc patches? Seems to me that if we were to have fancy new event-delivery machinery like kevent then the timerfd/signalfd work is heading in the other direction and ultimately would prove to have been unneeded? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
