* Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, 2012-07-27 at 13:53 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > > Bloating the interface for something that is already well
> > > possible is.
> >
> > There's no 'bloat' worth speaking off: a single bit out of
> > an already allocated bitmap, plus a single check in an
> > already existing loop,
>
> Uhm, no. The existing prctl() loop is over the fd's the task
> owns, you want a loop over the fd's that monitor you. This
> needs new prctl()s at the very least.
We could add a new prctl if you think, but I thought to not
complicate it and offer it as a simple extension of the
semantics to loop over active events. No existing binary's
behavior will change.
Thanks,
Ingo
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