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Re: SIGEV_THREAD

From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper at redhat dot com>
To: george anzinger <george at mvista dot com>
Cc: "libc-alpha at sources dot redhat dot com" <libc-alpha at sources dot redhat dot com>
Date: 11 Mar 2002 12:40:27 -0800
Subject: Re: SIGEV_THREAD
References: <3C8D12FF.9AF8862A@mvista.com>

On Mon, 2002-03-11 at 12:26, george anzinger wrote:

> It is not clear
> what to do here in terms of integrating the POSIX extensions into the
> kernel.

Implementing this is easy.  Just look at the kernel aio code.  The new
thread is created before the kernel is called for the timer.  This new
thread just lingers around until the timer expires, then does its job of
calling the user-provided function.

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