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David S. Miller wrote:
>    From: Chris Friesen <cfriesen@nortelnetworks.com>
>    Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2003 12:09:37 -0500
> 
>    Unless you poll for messages on the receiving side, how do you trigger 
>    the receiver to look for a message?
> 
> Send signals.  Use a FUTEX, be creative...

Suppose I have a process that waits on UDP packets, the unified local 
IPC that we're discussing, other unix sockets, and stdin.  It's awfully 
nice if the local IPC can be handled using the same select/poll 
mechanism as all the other messaging.


Chris




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