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Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2003 04:46:59 +0000
From: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
To: Werner Almesberger <wa@almesberger.net>
Cc: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>,
       Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>,
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Subject: Re: Synchronous signal delivery..
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Werner Almesberger wrote:
> Davide Libenzi wrote:
> > What do you think about having timers through a file interface ?
> 
> Maybe I'm missing something obvious, but couldn't you simply
> do this with a signal handler that writes to (a) pipe(s) ?

You can do that, and sometimes it is done, but the point is to provide
a mechanism with is _fast_, as epoll() is.

-- Jamie
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