> Are you talking about streams? I_SETSIG causing SIGPOLL?
Ah! Somebody who has probably heard this as well.
> ... 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.
This sounds very (interesting and) similar to the things the person told me. Is this
designed for writing, too? Is it described anywhere? Do you remember the name of the
book?
You mentioned Solaris, so I suppose it's built in there ... ? If so, the question is
if syscalls like select() already benefit from this or if it has to be used a special
way.
By the way, this could possibly be a solution of the EOF problem, couldn't it?
(Assumed the kernel sends no message about EOF as "new data".)
Thank you!
Jochen
