Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760068AbZAHTgR (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Jan 2009 14:36:17 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752807AbZAHTgF (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Jan 2009 14:36:05 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:55158 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751081AbZAHTgE (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Jan 2009 14:36:04 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Roland McGrath To: Oleg Nesterov X-Fcc: ~/Mail/linus Cc: Ulrich Drepper , Ingo Molnar , Casey Dahlin , Linux Kernel , Randy Dunlap , Davide Libenzi , Peter Zijlstra Subject: Re: [RESEND][RFC PATCH v2] waitfd In-Reply-To: Oleg Nesterov's message of Thursday, 8 January 2009 15:32:20 +0100 <20090108143220.GA8717@redhat.com> References: <49639EB8.40204@redhat.com> <4963ABF0.6070400@redhat.com> <20090107123457.GB16268@elte.hu> <20090107205322.5F8C7FC3E0@magilla.sf.frob.com> <20090108143220.GA8717@redhat.com> X-Antipastobozoticataclysm: Bariumenemanilow Message-Id: <20090108193530.99D74FC3DD@magilla.sf.frob.com> Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2009 11:35:30 -0800 (PST) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 427 Lines: 9 > > Since waitfd shouldn't consume the child termination notification > > waitfd should be more widely usable than the wait*() interfaces. waitid can be used that way with WNOWAIT. -- 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/