From: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@googlemail.com>
To: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org,
linux-api@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch/rfc] eventfd semaphore-like behavior
Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2009 12:49:31 +1300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <cfd18e0f0902041549t393c76d0s635b5e8c17fee2d1@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a36005b50902041545qb9ce459y710bb3b9b8949b17@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 12:45 PM, Ulrich Drepper <drepper@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 3:05 PM, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
>> How would you recommend that userspace determine whether its kernel
>> supports this feature, bearing in mind that someone might backport this
>> patch into arbitrarily earlier kernel versions?
>
> fd = eventfd2 (CNT, EFD_SEMAPHORE);
> if (fd == -1 && errno == EINVAL)
> puts("cannot handled EFD_SEMAPHORE");
Crossed mails. Ulrich put the point more succinctly.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-02-04 23:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-02-04 22:58 Davide Libenzi
2009-02-04 23:05 ` Andrew Morton
2009-02-04 23:18 ` Davide Libenzi
2009-02-04 23:24 ` Andrew Morton
2009-02-04 23:27 ` Davide Libenzi
2009-02-04 23:48 ` Michael Kerrisk
2009-02-04 23:55 ` Andrew Morton
2009-02-04 23:59 ` Michael Kerrisk
2009-02-05 0:02 ` Davide Libenzi
2010-08-30 5:21 ` Michael Kerrisk
2010-08-30 5:24 ` Michael Kerrisk
2010-08-30 14:22 ` Davide Libenzi
2009-02-05 0:18 ` Andrew Morton
2009-02-05 0:25 ` Davide Libenzi
2009-02-05 0:34 ` Andrew Morton
2009-02-05 0:26 ` Michael Kerrisk
2009-02-04 23:45 ` Ulrich Drepper
2009-02-04 23:49 ` Michael Kerrisk [this message]
2009-02-09 7:45 ` Michael Kerrisk
2009-02-09 17:39 ` Davide Libenzi
[not found] <499E527B.2030702@fastmq.com>
2009-02-20 7:00 ` Martin Sustrik
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