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Tue, 13 Mar 2007

signalfd/timerfd patches by Davide Libenzi.


Ok, some time after I posted first version of eventfs, Davide Libenzi has posted his version for signalfd system call (created originally by Linus Torvalds), which ended up in a big discussion and subsequent three releases, which now includes code for timers too. My implementation is smaller and uses completely different idea - signal file descriptor is processed before signal is posted into signal mask, so it eliminates some issues and simplifies code.
My implementation does not require additional steps to run in your code (like blocking of the signal to be delivered through file descriptor as in Linus' variant), and nevertheless I got zero responses on it although a lot of people including Linus and Davide were in Cc list.
I call it NIH syndrome and it does demotivate me from doing anything related to generic Linux code.

I got that news via LWN:kernel news line.

Eventfs and kevent projects are officially closed. I want to specially thank David Miller, Zach Brown, Johann Borck, Jonathan Corbet and all other people for theirs time.

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New wine.


My local wine shop does not have products of neither 'Koktebel', nor 'Inkerman' wine factories, so I got something really foreigh - Chile wine.
'Carmenere' by 'Aresti Chile Wine Ltda' factory and 'Sunrise Merlot' by 'Vina Concha y Toro', both are red dry wines.
The former I already opened - well, it has very interesting taste, but I would not say I like it very much - it is too sour dry wine.

It's time to start working...

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