On Tue, Mar 14, 2000 at 08:52:02PM +0100, "Jochen Stenzel" wrote:
> > > One person knew a new UNIX kernel mechanism which actively - if I
> > > understood and noted this correctly - can inform processes when certain
> > > handles are used. He asked if Event supports this mechanism.
> > Show me a man page. :-)
> I asked for this immediately (last week) and will send a copy/link
> as soon as I receive it. I already mentioned it because it seemed
> possible somebody else knows this too.
Are you talking about streams? I_SETSIG causing SIGPOLL?
Some of that stuff is really sweet. I had a book or something on it
about a year ago that explained it all. It's funny that I remember
quite a bit of it still. You could actually say "whenever data comes
in through the stream head attached to file descriptor blah (ioctl
I_SETSIG), cause the kernel to SIGPOLL me with the details.
Along with asynchronous I/O... yummy. (Solaris)
mark
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