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SubjectRe: [take24 0/6] kevent: Generic event handling mechanism.
Evgeniy Polyakov wrote:
> But in this case it will be impossible to have SIGEV_THREAD and SIGEV_KEVENT
> at the same time, it will be just the same as SIGEV_SIGNAL but with
> different delivery mechanism. Is is what you expect for that?

Yes, that's expected. The event if for the queue, not directed to a
specific thread.

If in future we want to think about preferably waking a specific thread
we can then think about it. But I doubt that'll be beneficial. The
thread specific part in the signal handling is only used to implement
the SIGEV_THREAD notification.

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