On Sat, 10 Mar 2007, Nicholas Miell wrote:
>
> That's what the sigevent structure is for -- to describe how events
> should be signaled to userspace, whether by signal delivery, thread
> creation, or queuing to event completion ports. If if you think
> extending it would be bad, I can show you the line in POSIX where it
> encourages the contrary.
I'm sorry, but by pointing to the POSIX timer stuff, you're just making
your argument weaker.
POSIX timers are a horrible crock and over-designed to be a union of
everything that has ever been done. Nasty. We had tons of bugs in the
original setup because they were so damn nasty.
I'd rather look at just about *anything* else for good design than from
some of the abortions that are posix-timers.
Linus
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