Re: [PATCH v2 1/1] eventfd: implementation of EFD_MASK flag

2015-09-15 Thread Martin Sustrik
On 2015-09-16 08:27, Damian Hobson-Garcia wrote: From: Martin Sustrik When implementing network protocols in user space, one has to implement fake file descriptors to represent the sockets for the protocol. Polling on such fake file descriptors is a problem (poll/select/epoll accept only true

Re: [PATCH] eventfd: implementation of EFD_MASK flag

2015-08-10 Thread Martin Sustrik
On 2015-08-10 10:57, Damian Hobson-Garcia wrote: Hi Martin, Thanks for your comments. On 2015-08-10 3:39 PM, Martin Sustrik wrote: On 2015-08-10 08:23, Damian Hobson-Garcia wrote: Replying to my own post, but I had the following comments/questions. Martin, if you have any response to my

Re: [PATCH] eventfd: implementation of EFD_MASK flag

2015-08-09 Thread Martin Sustrik
On 2015-08-10 08:23, Damian Hobson-Garcia wrote: Replying to my own post, but I had the following comments/questions. Martin, if you have any response to my comments I would be very happy to hear them. On 2015-08-10 2:51 PM, Damian Hobson-Garcia wrote: From: Martin Sustrik [snip] write

Re: [PATCH v3 1/1] eventfd: implementation of EFD_MASK flag

2015-07-09 Thread Martin Sustrik
On 2015-07-09 11:06, Damian Hobson-Garcia wrote: Hi Martin, On 2015-07-09 5:41 PM, Martin Sustrik wrote: Hi Damian, Yes, this patch would be geneally useful for implementing stuff in user space that otherwise would have to live in kernelspace. Unfortunately, I have no cycles left to pursue

Re: [PATCH v3 1/1] eventfd: implementation of EFD_MASK flag

2015-07-09 Thread Martin Sustrik
n On 2013-02-18 8:34 PM, Martin Sustrik wrote: When implementing network protocols in user space, one has to implement fake file descriptors to represent the sockets for the protocol. Polling on such fake file descriptors is a problem (poll/select/epoll accept only true file descriptors) and f