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From: "Bagalkote, Sreenivas" <Sreenivas.Bagalkote@engenio.com>
To: "'Ray Lee'" <ray-lk@madrabbit.org>
Cc: "Bhattacharjee, Satadal" <Satadal.Bhattacharjee@engenio.com>,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       "Patro, Sumant" <Sumant.Patro@engenio.com>,
       "Ram, Hari" <hari.ram@engenio.com>,
       "Mukker, Atul" <Atul.Mukker@engenio.com>
Subject: RE: Registering for multiple SIGIO within a process
Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2005 00:09:11 -0400
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>
>On Wed, 2005-09-28 at 20:44 -0400, Bagalkote, Sreenivas wrote:
>> >(Sheesh, what is it with people thinking signals are 
>something to be 
>> >used in any design after the 1970's?)
>> What's your recommendation for asynchronous notification from driver 
>> to an application?
>
>Pass back an fd to select() upon. Cuts out that nasty middle 
>step where app authors end up registering a signal handler 
>that merely write()s the signal number down a pipe into the 
>(nearly ubiquitous) select loop.
>
>Ray
>

select() is not asynchronous to the app (like a signal handler is).
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