Re: signalfd support

["Larry Hall (Cygwin)" <reply-to-list-only-lh 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
> >
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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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