* Paul Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >having this API on 2.4 kernels. But it would have one big advantage: it
> >would be evidently and trivially RT-safe :-)
>
> no small advantage.
>
> it has another big advantage from the user space perspective: no other
> information is required apart from <tid>. no state needs to be
> maintained by the system that uses this. thats a huge win over the
> baroque collection of FIFOs (or futexes) that we have to look after
> now.
ok, i'll whip up something after 2.6.11.
Ingo
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