Werner Almesberger wrote:
> Davide Libenzi wrote:
> > What do you think about having timers through a file interface ?
>
> Maybe I'm missing something obvious, but couldn't you simply
> do this with a signal handler that writes to (a) pipe(s) ?
You can do that, and sometimes it is done, but the point is to provide
a mechanism with is _fast_, as epoll() is.
-- Jamie
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