Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261190AbTESPwm (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 May 2003 11:52:42 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261220AbTESPwm (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 May 2003 11:52:42 -0400 Received: from mx1.elte.hu ([157.181.1.137]:40866 "HELO mx1.elte.hu") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S261190AbTESPwl (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 May 2003 11:52:41 -0400 Date: Mon, 19 May 2003 18:02:20 +0200 (CEST) From: Ingo Molnar Reply-To: Ingo Molnar To: bert hubert Cc: Christoph Hellwig , Linus Torvalds , , Rusty Russell , Ulrich Drepper Subject: Re: [patch] futex API cleanups, futex-api-cleanup-2.5.69-A2 In-Reply-To: <20030519144716.GA20193@outpost.ds9a.nl> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 744 Lines: 20 On Mon, 19 May 2003, bert hubert wrote: > I for one would want the ability to select, poll and epoll on a futex > while also being notified of availability of data on sockets. I see no > alternative even, except for messing with signals or running select with > a small timeout, introducing needless latency. > > It may be weird, but it does work in practice. 'Unrobust' would be a > problem but I fail to see how this is unclean. ok, i was flaming away mindlessly. New patch on the way. Ingo - 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/