Re: [RFC PATCH] poll(): add poll_wait_set_exclusive()

[Linus Torvalds]

On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 10:56 AM, Mathieu Desnoyers
<mathieu.desnoyers@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Executive summary:
>
> Addition of the new internal API:

Executive summary: no.

You need to explain first how you could _ever_ use this without
breaking select/poll semantics totally.

IOW, you need to explain the user space interface first. Before you do
that, this patch is total and utter crap that is expressly designed to
used only in a manner that is a pure bug.

                       Linus
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