Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755135AbXEFT47 (ORCPT ); Sun, 6 May 2007 15:56:59 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755220AbXEFT47 (ORCPT ); Sun, 6 May 2007 15:56:59 -0400 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([65.172.181.25]:40540 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755135AbXEFT47 (ORCPT ); Sun, 6 May 2007 15:56:59 -0400 Date: Sun, 6 May 2007 12:54:51 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: "Ulrich Drepper" Cc: "Davide Libenzi" , "Davi Arnaut" , "Eric Dumazet" , "Linus Torvalds" , "Linux Kernel Mailing List" Subject: Re: [patch 14/22] pollfs: pollable futex Message-Id: <20070506125451.aac4b68f.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: References: <20070502052235.914764000@haxent.com.br> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.4.1 (GTK+ 2.8.17; x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1025 Lines: 20 On Sun, 6 May 2007 00:50:47 -0700 "Ulrich Drepper" wrote: > > I really do not understand your point. You're too smart to not appreciate > > the beauty and the simmetry of objects that responds to a common interface > > (our files, win32 handles), and that fits our existing kernel infrastructure. > > You're blinded by this symmetry. Not everything that looks like a > good fit is a good idea. This is one case. Get over it, poll is not > powerful enough to serve as the unifying event mechanism. What is your position on the timerfd/signalfd/etc patches? Seems to me that if we were to have fancy new event-delivery machinery like kevent then the timerfd/signalfd work is heading in the other direction and ultimately would prove to have been unneeded? - 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/