Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 7 Aug 2002 22:21:42 -0400 | From | Benjamin LaHaise <> | Subject | Re: context switch vs. signal delivery [was: Re: Accelerating user mode |
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On Wed, Aug 07, 2002 at 10:14:42PM -0500, Jeff Dike wrote: > I'm not sure if this makes any sense, but coupling the new aio mechanism with > something that queues up siginfos might be interesting. It would be a magic > descriptor that would feed you signals when you read it. > > Is that at all sane?
Delivering signals from aio completion is indeed possible. There is even a field in the iocb structure for doing this in order to provide complete posix compatibility (well, except for the fact that structure initialization is enforced).
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