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amelius on May 19, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Signalfd is useless

I'd like to see other concepts also covered by file descriptors. Example: semaphores, mutexes, condition variables, timers.

geofft on May 21, 2015 [–]

Timers are available via timerfd (man timerfd_create).

There used to be a FUTEX_FD, but it got removed. I think you can mostly achieve the effect with eventfd, though.

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