Hi!
> Rather than a signal, it should be a file descriptor of some sort, so
> one can select() etc on it. Personally I can't imagine polling would
> take any appreciable amount of resources, though.
It may not eat CPU but it will definitely eat memory... Because polling
means deamon that normally could be swapped out needs to stay in memory.
Pavel
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