On Mon, 23 Oct 2000, Jordan Mendelson wrote:
> What you describe is exactly what the /dev/poll interface patch from the
> Linux scalability project does.
>
> It creates a special device which you can open up and write
> add/remove/modify entries you wish to be notified of using the standard
> struct pollfd. Removing entries is done by setting the events in a
> struct written to the device to POLLREMOVE.
And that's an ugly crap.
* you add struct {<whatever>} into the kernel API. _Always_ a bad
idea.
* you either create yet another example of "every open() gives a
new instance" kind of device or you got to introduce a broker process.
* no easy way to check the current set.
* no fscking way to use that from scripts/etc.
> You can optionally mmap() memory which the notifications are written to.
> Two ioctl() calls are provide for the initial allocation and also to
> force it to check all items in your poll() list.
* useless use of ioctl() award
> Solaris has this same interface minus the mmap()'ed memory.
Oh, yes. Solaris. Great example of good taste...
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