RE: Registering for multiple SIGIO within a process

[Ray Lee]

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

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