Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752892AbaAZSdo (ORCPT ); Sun, 26 Jan 2014 13:33:44 -0500 Received: from smtprelay01.ispgateway.de ([80.67.31.28]:34902 "EHLO smtprelay01.ispgateway.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752461AbaAZSdn (ORCPT ); Sun, 26 Jan 2014 13:33:43 -0500 Message-ID: <52E554EC.3090900@ladisch.de> Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2014 19:33:16 +0100 From: Clemens Ladisch User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.15) Gecko/20110323 Thunderbird/3.1.9 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Network Nut CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: WaitForMultipleObjects/etc. In Kernel References: <00d901cf1a19$0ea62db0$2bf28910$@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <00d901cf1a19$0ea62db0$2bf28910$@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Df-Sender: bGludXgta2VybmVsQGNsLmRvbWFpbmZhY3Rvcnkta3VuZGUuZGU= Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Network Nut wrote: > I think that the facility by which a thread can block while waiting for any > of several synchronization primitives (*mutex*, *semaphore*, *event*, *waitable > timer*)...is not only "nice to have", but fundamental to complex (clean) > multi-threaded programming. You mean a facility like (e)poll, which can wait for things like timerfd, signalfd, or eventfd? Regards, Clemens -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/