>
>On Wed, 2005-09-28 at 20:44 -0400, Bagalkote, Sreenivas wrote:
>> >(Sheesh, what is it with people thinking signals are
>something to be
>> >used in any design after the 1970's?)
>> What's your recommendation for asynchronous notification from driver
>> to an application?
>
>Pass back an fd to select() upon. Cuts out that nasty middle
>step where app authors end up registering a signal handler
>that merely write()s the signal number down a pipe into the
>(nearly ubiquitous) select loop.
>
>Ray
>
select() is not asynchronous to the app (like a signal handler is).
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