Re: light weight user level semaphores

David Woodhouse (dwmw2@infradead.org)
Sun, 22 Apr 2001 15:18:34 +0100

alonz@nolaviz.org said:
> [BTW, another solution is to truly support opaque "handles" to kernel
> objects; I believe David Howells is already working on something like
> this for Wine? The poll interface can be trivially extended to support
> waiting on those...]

ISTR it wasn't quite trivial to do it that way - it would require the
addition of an extra argument to the fops->poll() method.

David?

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dwmw2




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