<div dir="ltr">On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 13:58, Ferenc Wagner <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:wferi@niif.hu" target="_blank">wferi@niif.hu</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div>Brandon Allbery <<a href="mailto:allbery.b@gmail.com" target="_blank">allbery.b@gmail.com</a>> writes:<br>
> More generally, Unix/POSIX lacks a good event-based interface which<br>
> can detect non-file-like events; many things map to signals, which can<br>
> be sort of handled gracefully with some hackery in C but are not<br>
> handled particularly well by GHC's runtime.<br>
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</div>I guess you miss the Linux-only signalfd/eventfd, right?</blockquote><div><br></div><div>"Linux-only" is the problem there. I know Linux folk like to imagine they define Unix and POSIX, but there are others out there still. Same problem with BSD's kqueue: I can't use it on Linux and only to a limited extent on OS X which has still another mechanism of its own (Mach ports).</div>
<div><br></div><div>It's the *portable* general event interface that is missing.</div></div><div><br></div>-- <br>brandon s allbery <a href="mailto:allbery.b@gmail.com" target="_blank">allbery.b@gmail.com</a><br>
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