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Kernel events without keventsKernel events without keventsPosted Mar 16, 2007 15:53 UTC (Fri) by cventers (subscriber, #31465)In reply to: Kernel events without kevents by pphaneuf Parent article: Kernel events without kevents
I think I remember reading something on LKML about FUTEX_FD being
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Kernel events without kevents Posted Mar 16, 2007 15:58 UTC (Fri) by pphaneuf (guest, #23480) [Link] Since it doesn't see any use in the mutex API that everyone uses, it's not surprising... Code that's not used tends to rot. Too bad, I would like that. I'll stay with my "pipes as semaphores" trick in the meantime...
Kernel events without kevents Posted Mar 16, 2007 16:47 UTC (Fri) by bronson (subscriber, #4806) [Link] You're right. Apparently it's "unfixably racy" and will disappear in June 2007.
http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/10/31/391
And it looks like there's no alternative other than self-pipes. Arg!
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