Re: Suggested addition to epoll interface - epoll_post_notification()
From: Roland Dreier
Date: Tue Sep 15 2009 - 14:17:01 EST
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I have been playing with epoll lately and I would like to make a suggestion
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regarding the epoll interface.
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It would be nice to have a function to wake up a thread/process that is blocked
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on an epoll_wait() call and sent it some
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user defined data in the form of a struct epoll_event parameter ( something
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similar with PostQueuedCompletionStatus() from Windows ).
You might have a look at eventfd() which creates an fd that can be used
to signal from one thread to another (and which can be waited on with epoll).
- R.
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