On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 01:14:42PM +0200, Petr Baudis wrote: > The sigevent structure is used as a common interface for several > asynchronous pthreads functions; also, getaddrinfo_a() uses it > and in the future, other library functions might. > > Currently, it is completely non-descript in some cases, plus > there are two competing descriptions in timer_create(2) and > mq_notify(3) (the former appears to be based on the latter). > This patch attempts to unify the descriptions in a single > manual page and networks it to the rest, so that I do not > have to add yet another description for the getaddrinfo_a(3) > manual page (currently in the works). > > P.S.: There are two unresolved issues with this patch - the > timer_create(2) requirement of real-time signal requirements > is somewhat confusing and it seems that SIGEV_THREAD_ID can > be or'd with SIGEV_SIGNAL or not. I did not have time to research > this so far, so I decided to rather send it in and see if someone > knows about this off the top of their head. > > Signed-off-by: Petr Baudis <pasky@xxxxxxx> Ping... Petr "Pasky" Baudis -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
