A Plumber's Wish List for Linux

Posted Oct 7, 2011 21:51 UTC (Fri) by wahern (subscriber, #37304)
In reply to: A Plumber's Wish List for Linux by kpfleming
Parent article: A Plumber's Wish List for Linux

Use eventfd() instead of a pipe. In fact, use it instead of a POSIX mutex when you want to be able to poll on it. That's what it was invented for--rolling your own pollable semaphores.