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Subject: Re: [patch 00/13] Syslets, "Threadlets", generic AIO support, v3
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On Sat, 3 Mar 2007, Davide Libenzi wrote:

> Those *other* (tons?!?) interfaces can be created *when* the need comes 
> (see Linus signalfd [1] example to show how urgent that was). *When* 
> the need comes, they will work with existing POSIX interfaces, without 
> requiring your own just-another event interface. Those other interfaces 
> could also be more easily adopted by other Unix cousins, because of 
> the fact that they rely on existing POSIX interfaces. One of the reason 
> about the Unix file abstraction interfaces, is that you do *not* have to 
> plan and bloat interfaces before. As long as your new abstraction behave 
> in a file-fashion, it can be automatically used with existing interfaces. 
> And you create them *when* the need comes.

Now, if you don't mind, my spare time is really limited and I prefer to 
spend it looking at stuff the topic of this thread talks about.
Even because the whole epoll/kevent discussion is heavily dependent on the 
fact that syslets/threadlets will or will not result a viable method for 
generic AIO. Savvy?



- Davide