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RE: signalfd support
- From: Charles Stepp <charles dot stepp at syniverse dot com>
- To: bob <bob at icanprogram dot com>, "cygwin at cygwin dot com" <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2012 20:57:42 +0000
- Subject: RE: signalfd support
- References: <2325766.6sS9bj5fZA@bob-kubuntu>
> Since the performance of Cygwin fifos is orders of magnitude poorer than the equivalent Linux implementation, I've been trying to find an alternative to fifos in my Cygwin port.
>
> One possibility is to use a combination of real time signals (which queue) and
> signalfd to provide a select()'able interface to those signals. Early test
> code on Linux shows promise.
>
> I did a quick check and it doesn't appear that Cygwin supports the signalfd
> (or eventfd) interface. Are there any plans to include this? If not what
> should I look at that Cygwin does support that could provide similar functionality?
>
> Thanks in advance for all your answers.
>
> bob
>
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I was thinking, "hmmm...shared memory...that's some fast stuff...", but
PC - ~ # ipcs -a
Bad system call
Oh well...our wonderful godlings who create this cygwin stuff for us can only make so much silk purse out of this Windoze pig.
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