On Friday, 27. February 2009, Pavel Machek wrote: > On Fri 2009-02-13 17:49:57, Uli Luckas wrote: > > On Friday, 13. February 2009, Matthew Garrett wrote: > > > Userland ABI would then be a single /dev/inhibit_suspend, > > > with the counter being bumped each time an application opens it. It'll > > > automatically be dropped if the application exits without cleaning up. > > > > > > This seems simpler and also avoids any arguments about the naming > > > scheme. What am I missing? > > > > Opening and closing an fd sounds like a lot of overhead. Taking and > > releasing locks if going to be a called with very highg frequency. I'd go > > for an ioctl. > > Ehm? > > And introduce nasty interface, and probably slower too since open() is > time-critical and ioctl() is not? Or do you have benchmarks? > Pavel No, just specualting as open() needs to do a directory lookup. It also needs to do book keeping. I'd be surprised if open was faster then ioctl. On the otherhand if you consider ioctl nasty, maybe write() is an option? Uli -- ------- ROAD ...the handyPC Company - - - ) ) ) Uli Luckas Head of Software Development ROAD GmbH Bennigsenstr. 14 | 12159 Berlin | Germany fon: +49 (30) 230069 - 62 | fax: +49 (30) 230069 - 69 url: www.road.de Amtsgericht Charlottenburg: HRB 96688 B Managing director: Hans-Peter Constien
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