X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.2 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,BOTNET,KHOP_RCVD_UNTRUST,KHOP_THREADED,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_NO,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_W,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_WL X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-id: <507C7BDB.2090207@cygwin.com> Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2012 17:10:51 -0400 From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Reply-to: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:16.0) Gecko/20121010 Thunderbird/16.0.1 MIME-version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: signalfd support References: <2325766 DOT 6sS9bj5fZA AT bob-kubuntu> In-reply-to: Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com On 10/15/2012 4:57 PM, Charles Stepp wrote: >> 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 >> >> -- >> Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html >> FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ >> Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html >> Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > > 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. -- Larry _____________________________________________________________________ A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple