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From: Edgar Toernig <froese@gmx.de>
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Subject: Re: [RFC] /dev/itimer
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Nicholas Miell wrote:
>
> Solaris lets you specify SIGEV_PORT in your struct sigevent which then
> queues timer completions (or anything else that takes a struct sigevent,
> like POSIX AIO) to a port and then all types of queued events (including
> fd polling and user generated events) can be waited on and fetched with
> a single function call.

There must be a reason that I haven't seen that used in the wild yet ...

Ciao, ET.