Re: [PATCH 0/8][for -mm] mem_notify v6

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On Sun, 10 Feb 2008 01:33:49 +0900
"KOSAKI Motohiro" <kosaki.motohiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > Where is the netlink interface? Polling an FD is so last century :)
> 
> to be honest, I don't know anyone use netlink and why hope receive
> low memory notify by netlink.
> 
> poll() is old way, but it works good enough.

More importantly, all gtk+ programs, as well as most databases and other
system daemons have a poll() loop as their main loop.

A file descriptor fits that main loop perfectly.

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