Re: Event on the 2nd German Perl Workshop
[email protected] ("Mark Mielke")
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On Tue, Mar 14, 2000 at 08:52:02PM +0100, "Jochen Stenzel" wrote: > > > One person knew a new UNIX kernel mechanism which actively - if I > > > understood and noted this correctly - can inform processes when certain > > > handles are used. He asked if Event supports this mechanism. > > Show me a man page. :-) > I asked for this immediately (last week) and will send a copy/link > as soon as I receive it. I already mentioned it because it seemed > possible somebody else knows this too. Are you talking about streams? I_SETSIG causing SIGPOLL? Some of that stuff is really sweet. I had a book or something on it about a year ago that explained it all. It's funny that I remember quite a bit of it still. You could actually say "whenever data comes in through the stream head attached to file descriptor blah (ioctl I_SETSIG), cause the kernel to SIGPOLL me with the details. Along with asynchronous I/O... yummy. (Solaris) mark -- [email protected]/[email protected]/[email protected] __________________________ . . _ ._ . . .__ . . ._. .__ . . . .__ | SIR Tools (7H12) |\/| |_| |_| |/ |_ |\/| | |_ | |/ |_ | Nortel Networks | | | | | \ | \ |__ . | | .|. |__ |__ | \ |__ | Ottawa, Ontario, Canada One ring to rule them all, one ring to find them, one ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them... http://mark.mielke.cc/